recognise

They couldn’t for example afford to properly recognise that their mother didn’t want the best for them.

The gazelles don't seem to recognise the crocodiles as danger.

Generally, because their early survival depended on them not fully recognising the unpleasantness of a person close to them; because their childhood forced them into a state of unwarranted innocence.

And then to walk away because we know what we are up against and recognise that lonely calm truly is really better than continually agitated togetherness.

Part of the difficulty lies as ever in each party recognising the legitimacy of their pain and their right to make a polite, well articulated fuss about so-called ‘small things.’

Once we recognise that by the time we are spending hours on a choice, anything we choose will be both pretty fine and simultaneously stubbornly somewhat awful too, we may cease to grow either quite so exercised or so terrified.