without the aid of

idiom

: without using
I can no longer read without the aid of glasses.

Examples of without the aid of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When the working week was first established decades ago, the landscape was vastly different without the aid of technology. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024 At the foot of the building was a mound of debris, where men appeared to be digging for survivors, or bodies, without the aid of any heavy equipment. Nadav Gavrielov, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023 The movie dramatizes Nyad who, in 2013, became the first person to swim the 110-mile distance from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The next night, the Rangers scored an insurance run without the aid of homer. Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023 London’s experience shows that a congestion fee helps to keep fumes down without the aid of a global catastrophe. Curbed, 31 May 2023 Mathematicians have since drastically simplified the proof and verified the computer code, but to this day, no proof of the theorem without the aid of computers is known. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023 Murphy plays Oppenheimer from a young student in Cambridge in the 1920s through to the post-war McCarthy era and beyond, without the aid of distracting de-aging CGI (the physicist died in 1967). Thomas Page, CNN, 17 July 2023 Warner said the Marine Mammal Care Center staffs 17 people and would have been crippled without the aid of volunteers. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023

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“Without the aid of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20the%20aid%20of. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.

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