The phrase "a sharpened understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a clearer or more refined comprehension of a subject or concept.
Example: "After attending the seminar, I left with a sharpened understanding of the complexities of climate change."
Alternatives: "a clearer understanding" or "an enhanced comprehension".
More recently, the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, given the very severe forms of ARDS observed in young subjects, led to improvements in equipment (cannulae, pumps and membranes), sharpened understanding of protective ventilation modalities, and renewed interest in the use of ECMO.
Meeting one-on-one with or serving as a peer tutor in mathematics, the natural sciences or a foreign language sharpens understanding for both the tutee and the tutor, and allows for a level of inquiry often shied away from in the classroom.
A fresh start with a sharpened mind.
The next statement is a sharpened version of Lemma 2.2.
We establish a sharpened version of inequality (15), as follows.
This version of Photoshop incorporates three basic sharpening filters hereafter referred to as: (a) "sharpen," (b) "sharpen more," and (c) "sharpen edges".
Together with genomic sequence data, these structural data have sharpened our understanding of RNA structure and folding.
Equally importantly, it sharpened our understanding of what culturally-based differences might involve for Indigenous patients and how they might play out to differentially influence outcomes.
Exposure to important global processes such as the deliberations of the ECOSOC furthered sharpened my understanding of the overall global policy and diplomacy framework within which we operate.
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