SAVVYING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

savvying

verb

present participle of savvy

as in understanding

to have a clear idea of the man growled, "Don't ever date my daughter again—you savvy?"

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For business leaders, understanding tokens is becoming essential for budgeting AI projects, comparing models and controlling costs.

— Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
CFOs are seeing only aggregate bills without understanding the underlying drivers.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Definition of understanding

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Jonestown afflicted Naipaul’s vision, his way of deciphering not just political manias but the dreariness of urban life, the perpetual doom of the nuclear-arms race.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
In 2023, the Vesuvius Challenge made its first award for deciphering the first letters, and the following year, the project awarded the grand prize of $700,000 for producing the first readable text.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026

Definition of deciphering

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After weeks of not mentioning or recognizing the protests, Modi issued his first public response on Thursday to demonstrations.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Courts routinely accommodate physical disabilities because fairness sometimes requires recognizing genuine limitations.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of recognizing

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Mead played three different infield positions for the Nationals, seeing time at third base, first base and second base.

— Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 26 July 2026
With softball seeing continued audience growth during the Women’s College World Series, college regular season and now the AUSL, expectations are rising as the sport will make its return to the Olympics at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

— Molly Keshin, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of seeing

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That there was grasping profit-seeking by private-sector grocery stores.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
By combining grasping and touch sensing into a single soft device, future robots could be trained to perform much more complex and demanding tasks than simply washing the dishes.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 20 July 2026

Definition of grasping

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Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.

— Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
As for whether comprehending the wiring of the brain really demands techniques from the frontiers of theoretical physics, questions remain.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of comprehending

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