How to Use understood in a Sentence

understood

adjective

• Yet these terms, so common there, are little used and even less understood in the US.
  — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Here are five things to know about the little-understood variant.
  — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2021
• Then Leakey took a chance on his 26-year-old secretary and sent Goodall into the field to study the then-little understood wild chimpanzee.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
• Hence, a humble mission statement for the book: to shine a light on a starkly dark and little understood subject in the hopes of helping others who could be going through the same pain.
  — Rob Ledonne, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The brain is famously the least understood parts of the body, the sheer complexity of human thought is something scientists have struggled with for years.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• But instant delivery is a very well understood market both in the U.S. and globally.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• But there are other, less understood influences that predators can have on their prey’s survival.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
• The range of posts speaks to the broad spectrum of physical and emotional effects of being sick for such a long time, with a disease that’s both so little understood and so isolating.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Create the space so that AR can demonstrate the business impact just as equally as more understood disciplines like marketing and PR.
  — Regina Hoshimi, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Yet familiarity hasn’t bred knowledge: Turbulence is one of the least understood parts of the physical world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018
• The state issued emergency quarantines for both the scale and roseau but was slow to devote money to researching the little-understood insect and methods for stopping it.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Neanderthals, the best understood species of archaic human, often lived in limestone caves that preserved their bones well after death.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Clients want to feel understood and feel comfortable explaining their issues, without feeling like they will be overlooked.
  — Ariyana Griffin, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Nurses were spending 12-hour shifts sweating inside the personal protective equipment that kept them safe from the novel, little-understood virus that floated in the air around them.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• As a result, archaeologists have found many more of those bones than those belonging to the Denisovan species, a less understood but still important type of early human.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Beauty, fashion, and well-being have an understood synergy and work in tandem with one another.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 4 Apr. 2023
• Though the Clippers were Harden’s understood preference, the Clippers were hardly in a Harden-or-bust philosophy.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• In the current Highway Code there’s a little-understood rule that pedestrians have priority at junctions.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• But there’s another important but little understood factor — a product of the heat that fire forecasters study closely.
  — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Brown, charming and confident, understood budgets, cash flow and union protocols, according to LeBarre.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• The cross-pollination is a little understood reality of the primary scrums.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• This is especially true for senior-level positions, and that's thanks to an unseen and little understood problem blocking women's path to leadership: the broken rung.
  — Marianne Cooper For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
• The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Based in Europe, Interpol is a little-understood but quietly important part of law enforcement.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• The discovery was a reminder to look more closely at seemingly familiar places—and a tantalizing opportunity to learn more about a little understood ecosystem.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• The discovery was a reminder to look more closely at seemingly familiar places—and a tantalizing opportunity to learn more about a little understood ecosystem.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• With a history that includes Henrietta Lacks and the Tuskegee Experiment, there’s some understood skepticism.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• While the bacteria causing Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is considered the most worrisome, others are not as well studied and their effects remain less understood.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
• Two trophy skulls, recently discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization.
  — Gabriel D. Wrobel, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2019
• We will be stuck not only with the virus but also with a little-understood and harrowing legacy: Ten to 30 percent of the hundreds of millions infected may suffer from lingering and potentially debilitating symptoms.
  — Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024