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"grasp the extent" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the phrase to talk about understanding the full scope or range of something. For example, "I had not fully grasped the extent of the project until I attended the meeting."
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Facebook's management team, which was beginning to grasp the extent of the problems, was livid.
But it may also help ordinary people better grasp the extent to which apps collect and share their personal information.
They are too naive and young to grasp the extent of how money, politics and policy intersect, the argument goes.
He says people are struggling to grasp the extent of the damage inflicted, maybe because the damage is underwater.
But I didn't grasp the extent of the situation until I got a call from the school nurse.
To grasp the extent of this abyss, the present-day geologist Robert Hazen proposes going for a walk, with each step representing a century back in time.
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Congress is slowly grasping the extent of the problem.
And he expressed concern that academics may not be fully grasping the extent of the change.
Nevertheless, even Bhutto may not have grasped the extent to which old patterns of radicalism in Pakistan are changing.
The rules don't bend so easily, and Wadjda, clever as she is, has not quite grasped the extent to which they are rigged against her.
When Thatcher grasped the extent of Reagan's willingness to compromise with Mikhail Gorbachev, she was "incandescent," one of her cabinet ministers said.
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