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
• While the daily movement patterns of sharks are well studied, those of rays remain less understood.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
• But there are other, less understood influences that predators can have on their prey’s survival.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
• Clients want to feel understood and feel comfortable explaining their issues, without feeling like they will be overlooked.
  — Ariyana Griffin, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• For some, choosing a doctor with a similar background represents their best attempt to feel more understood.
  — Yasamine Salkar, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
• That should still leave you feeling more understood than saying nothing at all — embrace reasonable compromise!
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2024
• Decidedly less noted, and therefore less understood, are the political roots of the gay backlash.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• There are sprawling voids in space, some hundreds of millions of light-years across, whose emptiness scientists think is the ideal zone for studying less understood particles such as neutrinos.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
• 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
• This technology could open new opportunities to scan mummies that are otherwise little-understood.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2020
• There’s an understood language of action that marries really close-up, sharp inserts, the propulsion of rapid editing, wham-bam sound effects, and visual carnage to create excitement.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2025
• Leaders who embrace this approach will not only drive better results but will also foster a culture where employees feel understood, respected, and empowered.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• The Standard Model of particle physics is the current best theory of all the understood matter and forces in our universe (except gravity).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Yet even as software grows in importance, code becomes less visible, less tangible, less understood, and—perhaps most paradoxically—less valuable in monetary terms.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2016
• However, according to The Guardian and other publications, there was an understood risk of the concerts being canceled if a police escort was not provided.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Learning to make these decisions off of comprehensive, well understood and trustworthy data can drastically increase the effectiveness of any decision and bring order to an otherwise chaotic world.
  — Noah Mitsuhashi, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• With a history that includes Henrietta Lacks and the Tuskegee Experiment, there’s some understood skepticism.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• But precisely how this reheating step would have occurred wasn’t well-understood, says Vahid Kamali, a visiting professor at McGill University and an associate professor at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran, who studies early-universe cosmology and wasn’t involved in the new research.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025