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The phrase "a proxy for understanding" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a tool, concept, or method that serves as a substitute or representation for understanding something more complex or abstract. Example: "While studying history, timelines can serve as a proxy for understanding the sequence of events that led to a major conflict."
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In order to evaluate the seaport competitiveness, efficiency is used as a proxy for understanding output [12, 14, 35, 37].
While we acknowledge the limitations of the categories and data sources used by the Fund for Peace, for the purposes of this map political instability is used as a proxy for understanding a state's ability to effectively manage the extraction, production, consumption, and export of its food, water, energy, and mineral resources.
The 'Prey Size' character serves as a proxy for understanding the evolution of the unique macrostomatan condition – that is, a kinetic system enabling them to ingest intact prey items that are much larger than the head – within snakes (a capacity that evolved twice if tropidophiids are basal alethinophidians as genomic data suggest).
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This review focuses on dynamics of the solar chromosphere, which serves as a good proxy for understanding processes in stellar chromospheres as well.
M. smegmatis is a convenient proxy for understanding functional consequences of mutations in Mtb because of its higher growth rate and its noninfectious nature.
Confidence can serve as a useful proxy for understanding patient attitudes and behaviours and has implications distinct from other more commonly discussed notions such as satisfaction, trust and self-efficacy.
These prior findings examined an aggregated VLFI score as a proxy for "fluency" for understanding sequential images in general.
It can inform modern human medicine, because studying the fragmentary, squashed and hard-to-identify fossilised remains of distant relatives that lived millions of years ago in a different climate are definitely the most reliable proxy for understanding human health.
Trees were therefore scored in a way to represent participants' general understanding of phylogenetics and as a proxy for their understanding of evolutionary theory.
Besides being an important process for the protection of receiving waters, nitrification served as a proxy for the understanding of the behavior of a narrowly defined group of microorganisms growing on known substrates under environmental conditions.
With regard to what concept inventories really measure, the heart of the issue is whether measurement of content knowledge can in some way serve as a proxy for conceptual understanding (Black, 2003).
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