Sentence examples for without actually understanding from inspiring English sources

This was intended to mimic the early stages of development in creatures that demonstrate ANS: approximate number sense, described as the ability to determine basic numeric qualities such as greater or lesser without actually understanding the numbers themselves.

It's difficult to parse out these various subsets without actually understanding what expressionism is in the first place.

Unfortunately, discussion about conflict often feeds on the difficulty and violence without actually understanding anything about the nature of the conflict itself.

They wanted to seem like they were doing something, without actually understanding and determining whether their action was effective, necessary or counterproductive.

Many K-12 IT departments today make decisions and write policies about blocking and filtering social media and other Web 2.0 technologies without actually understanding how these tools work and how they can be leveraged to improve educational outcomes.

Looking for an experienced firm, without actually understanding, is just useless.

Actually, understanding this cancer has taken me a while.

Actually I did make a brief personal appearance at the boxing on Thursday (row 27, that was me) to watch Anthony Ogogo win, without really understanding why.

"I actually enjoy understanding the financial markets," he said.

By making consumers feel good without actually doing anything meaningful, it discourages understanding, undermining the search for better detection, safer treatments, causes and cures for a disease that still afflicts 250,000 women annually (and speaking of figures, the number who die has remained unchanged — hovering around 40,000 — for more than a decade).

(Of course people can use such a term without actually having the corresponding attitudes, but understanding the term is a matter of seeing that it is a linguistically appropriate way to express the attitude).