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The phrase "is traditionally understood" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing common interpretations or accepted meanings of a concept, idea, or practice over time.
Example: "In many cultures, the concept of family is traditionally understood as a unit that includes not just parents and children, but also extended relatives."
Alternatives: "is commonly perceived" or "is generally regarded".
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Ive says it will be "a move away from what is traditionally understood as consumer electronics".
Risk sexual behaviour is traditionally understood as behaviour leading to unwanted pregnancy and to spread of STD.
These innovators connect law, as it is traditionally understood, to the resolution of the underlying problems that create and maintain workplace inequity.
The answer to the Tata Steel sell-off is not nationalisation – at least as it is traditionally understood – but state action.
Both works draw on an intellectual French practice of pedestrian dance-theater, in which not much dance, as it is traditionally understood, occurs.
This dates back to the revolution of 1789 and is traditionally understood to be a way of controlling and disciplining the Catholic Church.
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A political discussion doesn't have to be exclusively about things that are traditionally understood as political.
In the 1960s Thomas Kuhn argued that discarding an old theory for a radically new one involved a complete change of framework, a "paradigm shift", that could not easily be explained by adjusting old theories in light of fresh evidence as that was traditionally understood.
Sometimes, the latter are the more effective than premises as they have been traditionally understood.
"The way pain has been traditionally understood has been using the notion of a simple 'pain pathway,'" says Duke psychiatry professor Frank Keefe, a world-renowned pain expert.
Urbanization has been traditionally understood using the frameworks of demography, urban planning, urban infrastructure, transportation, affordable housing, and urban development (Yin et al. 2011; Boori et al 2014a).
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