How to Use without the aid of in a Sentence

without the aid of

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  • The next night, the Rangers scored an insurance run without the aid of homer.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And, crucially, which looked most presentable without the aid of an iron?
    Ashley Ogawa Clarke / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 16 June 2023
  • His wife was applying lipstick without the aid of a mirror.
    CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The Rockies took a 1-0 lead in the second inning without the aid of a hit.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Free diving, which involves diving on a single breath without the aid of scuba equipment, has boomed in the last decade.
    Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Fetterman started having brief phone calls without the aid of text transcription.
    Kara Voght, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Even more impressive, these ancient sailors likely made their journeys in simple dugout canoes without the aid of sails.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2025
  • 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.
    Vivian Yee, Ameera Harouda, Nadav Gavrielov and Abu Bakr Bashir, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Previous research has shown that seals in captivity, when blindfolded, can even use their whiskers alone to hunt, without the aid of sight.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Both satellites were easily visible from the ground without the aid of binoculars or telescopes.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In today’s dollars, that would be just over half a million dollars in the first year, without the aid of things like a website or social media to spread the word.
    Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • London’s experience shows that a congestion fee helps to keep fumes down without the aid of a global catastrophe.
    Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • This is a show about ordinary people rising up against the government, without the aid of any super-powered beings or lightsabers.
    Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 14 May 2025
  • In the southern hemisphere, Sirius is the first point of call if using a night vision monocular without the aid of a telescope.
    Matt Morris, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • And yet, in a tiny packet, without the aid of a stove, somehow, Smith has developed comparable flavors.
    Hannah Selinger, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But that might not matter when there are available options easily accessible without the aid of the teams or stadiums.
    Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But even without the aid of Hezbollah, Iran’s leaders felt intense pressure to mount an aggressive response.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • All of this simply could not be accomplished without the aid of software and artificial intelligence.
    Cris Burnam, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Like other pre-midcentury homes in Austin, it was designed to take the sting out of summer without the aid of more advanced cooling methods.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Notably, the four-digit figure is achieved without the aid of turbochargers, which can have the buzzkill effect of diminishing the exhaust note.
    Robb Report Staff, Robb Report, 4 July 2024
  • Events such as the Senior and Shrine Bowls, combine and pro days can help elevate a prospect further up draft boards even without the aid of fresh game tape.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The device produces instantaneous audio that is clear, detailed, and loud, even without the aid of additional speakers.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026
  • Planets like Mars and Jupiter are big enough and orbit close enough to Earth that seeing them from the ground without the aid of telescopes isn't all that noteworthy.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The muscles are directly visible through the conjunctival incision without the aid of a camera.
    Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
  • The divers from Rincón del Mar are considered the best for their great capacity to hold their breath and resistance without the aid of equipment or oxygen tanks.
    Photovogue, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
  • More powerful and vivid than captured on record, her singing moved from faint, vulnerable whispers to urgent, shrill-free belting that often carried without the aid of effects.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But Swift, 34, quickly played off the malfunction, continuing to dance and sing around the stage, joined by her backup dancers, without the aid of the platform.
    Chris Barilla, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike other film competitions, however, the movies submitted told their stories in visual terms without the aid of voices or sound effects.
    Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Having hit an all-time low in his career, Cohen worked mostly alone and often in Montreal, producing new songs still without the aid of a guitar.
    Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024

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