cotton on
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to understand, usually after some initial difficulty
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- tumble
- pasttense
- cottoned on
- presentparticiple
- cottoning on
- thirdpersonsingular
- cottons on
- pastparticiple
- cottoned on
Framework definitions
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- to understand, usually after some initial difficulty
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