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
  • But that’s a fairly minor shortcut, since direct detection of things like doors and packages is a fairly well understood problem.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2023
  • 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

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