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The phrase "understood themselves" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to describe the action of gaining self-awareness or understanding one's own thoughts and feelings. Example: Through therapy and introspection, the protagonist finally understood themselves and the root cause of their fears.
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"They understood themselves to be going to the Promised Land".
Thomas explored the relationships, values, and practices through which each community understood themselves as authentically Christian.
The postwar twentysomethings understood themselves to have built the suburban homestead.
More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be involved in a religious endeavour.
At the frontier, the settlers understood themselves at the front line in a battle between (white) people and nature.
And this kind of active recovery of core values is exactly what European ethnic nationalists and the Négritude poets understood themselves to be doing.
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How did the colonists understand themselves as British subjects?
Once, psychologists worked to understand their patients deeply and to help them better understand themselves.
"We want to understand the customer better than they understand themselves.
We don't understand the Iranians because the Iranians don't understand themselves.
"Well, they didn't seem to understand themselves or what they were doing," he continues.
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