"understand through" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to comprehend or grasp something by means of a particular method or source. Example: "I was able to understand the complex concept through visual aids and diagrams."
We sought to understand through qualitative investigation how non-clinical community placements contributed to students' understanding of health disparities.
Would she understand, through his touch, that making people laugh felt to him like being hit?
Engineers, designers and those employed in the media all have to understand through images as much as through words.
Mrs. Zegerman came to understand, through Arty's roundabout explanation, that his friend Jimmy had spent two hundred dollars on a birthday present for him.
"The Lord works in strange ways" -- indeed, over eons and employing processes that the human mind is just beginning to understand through science and the subsequent knowledge gained.
Perhaps he has learned something from his experience of war that we've yet to understand through living entirely in a peacetime environment.
The BBC executive argued that the film gave young listeners "a rare and valuable opportunity to understand through first-hand testimony the motivation of an individual who had chosen to fight with Isis".
From what I understand, through both the New Jersey First Aid Council and the New Jersey League of Municipalities, our initiative with Raritan Bay Medical Center is the first of its kind in New Jersey.
In "Typical American," readers came to understand, through Jen's adroit storytelling, the disappointments beneath the resilience of the Chinese immigrants Ralph and Helen Chang; in "Mona in the Promised Land," Jen gave us the identity struggles of the couple's American-born daughter.
It was simpler for me, in trying to "understand through action," to latch on to the concept of devotion: there was Michelson's clear devotion to her ideas and her craft, and the dancers' devotion to Michelson (the neon portrait was always there, big sister watching them).
Dance shouldn't necessarily be easy, and certainly Michelson seems aware of the difficulties that her work presents; she has written that it "risks rejection based on its aesthetics and at its deepest structural core denies safety in favor of trying to understand through action".
