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grok

[grok]

verb (used with object)

  1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively.

    The code is simple enough that you should be able to grok what it does.



verb (used without object)

  1. to communicate sympathetically.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of grok1

Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
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Others resemble wireless earbuds and stress balls and decks of cards, the type of creature design that might happen when you’re in your own alternate dimension grokking at the stuff on your dresser.

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In it "grokking" was to empathise deeply with others.

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Since fate brought us together in 2012, I’ve been enamored, entranced, obsessed with grokking the city’s essence — not only its vibrant now but its storied Technicolor past.

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While it may be hard to grok those numbers, it’s obvious they were at the very least good enough to convince investors to come together for a Series A round.

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The people who immediately grok the title of “The Sparks Brothers” are precisely the audience for this adoring portrait of Ron and Russell Mael, the siblings who formed the titular band Sparks in the 1970s.

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