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make sense

Be understandable. This usage, first recorded in 1686, is often used in a negative context, as in This explanation doesn't make sense .
Be reasonable, wise, or practical, as in It makes sense to find out first how many will attend the conference . This term employs sense in the meaning of “what is reasonable,” a usage dating from 1600. In Britain it is also put as stand to sense .

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Sure, they have children, and sure her feelings were conflicted but this did not make sense in the way it was written and played.

He then attempts to make sense of the violence almost from a scientific perspective.

Tougher regulations on tank cars and oil-by-rail make sense.

The procedure, says a spokesperson from the World Health Organization, doesn't even make sense.

Still, there are other places where, like trial juries, sortition make sense.

It is impossible to make sense without reading nolde for wolde.

The woman seemed to be talking a great deal and to say very much, but he could not make sense of it.

The facts brought in by their reporters naturally sounded fantastic to the editors, so they rearranged them to "make sense."

Marin sat and stared at the wall, turning over hypotheses in his mind, discarding them when they failed to make sense.

Of course, I could only catch a few disjointed words, and out of them I tried to make sense.

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