Below you will find example sentences with "poorly understood". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Poorly Understood in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: understood
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 21.8 words

Words in this phrase

poorly understood

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • poorly can mean: In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort. Frequent word
  • understood can mean: Having been comprehended. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and often poorly understood tipping point 1× averse is poorly understood 1× cells remain poorly understood 1× changes remain poorly understood 1× complex and poorly understood international agreement 1× difficult and poorly understood condition pic 1× even more poorly understood than active 1× filipinos are poorly understood and underestimated 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to sabado 1× although many processes 1× although the problem 1× and messing with 1× and yet how 1× but while voters 1×

Common sentence endings:

is poorly understood 2× remain poorly understood 2× a molecular basis 1× an election centrepiece 1× and poorly understood 1× and thrash about 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

remain 3× active 2× although 2× known 2× matter 2× complex 2× bank 2× credit 2× risk 2× despite 2× health 2× subject 1×

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

poor people pony express polo shirt pollution levels pollution control polling units

Just after it in the phrase index:

pop artist pop culture pop music pop rock pop star pope benedict

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "poorly understood" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 21.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and often poorly understood tipping point, averse is poorly understood, remain, active and although stand out.

Example types with poorly understood

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Dark matter is all around us but poorly understood. (9 words)

And messing with complex, poorly understood systems brings big risks. (10 words)

Inactive vents are even more poorly understood than active ones. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Although many processes are well understood at a point or for a small area, others are poorly understood at all scales, and process interactions under normal or extreme climatic conditions may be unknown. (33 words)

But while voters are more positive about his deal than they ever were about hers, there is no precedent for making a brand new, complex and poorly understood international agreement an election centrepiece. (33 words)

For reasons that are poorly understood, the dream content is usually violent - patients report being chased, or defending themselves, and as they sleep they shout, moan, scream, kick, punch and thrash about. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

This is a subject that is poorly understood by most, and understood down to the granular details by a relative handful of rates strategists and those active in money markets.

Although many processes are well understood at a point or for a small area, others are poorly understood at all scales, and process interactions under normal or extreme climatic conditions may be unknown.

Although the problem is well known, the exact concentrations of such particulate matter within and outside of the swine barns at different times is poorly understood.

And messing with complex, poorly understood systems brings big risks.

And yet how the detection of injury leads to healing is poorly understood on a molecular basis.

Dark matter is all around us but poorly understood.

For reasons that are poorly understood, the dream content is usually violent - patients report being chased, or defending themselves, and as they sleep they shout, moan, scream, kick, punch and thrash about.

Given the far larger quantities of non-bank credit which depend for its facilitation on bank credit, the negative impact on the economy of banks becoming risk averse is poorly understood.

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Unfortunately, extremely low probability, and often poorly understood tipping point scenarios, often end up being misinterpreted as likely and imminent climate events.

Please do better and educated yourselves about this difficult and poorly understood condition, pic.

Despite their ubiquity and importance, glycans remain poorly understood because of their complexity.

Inactive vents are even more poorly understood than active ones.

The discovery is significant as the mechanism in question is still poorly understood in science.

The experiment was widely condemned as irresponsible and dangerous — in large part because many of the ways in which Crispr-Cas9 can affect cells remain poorly understood.

Z-nucleic acids were discovered more than 40 years ago, but their biological function has remained poorly understood.

According to Sabado-Liwag, despite being one of the third-largest and rapidly expanding ethnic groups, the health needs of Filipinos are poorly understood and underestimated.

According to the study published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience,’ taste perception is known to change with obesity, but the underlying neural changes remain poorly understood.

But while voters are more positive about his deal than they ever were about hers, there is no precedent for making a brand new, complex and poorly understood international agreement an election centrepiece.

Maybe we have just gotten to a point where democracy is so poorly understood by an ignorant populace that they don’t comprehend what is at risk.

Vaccines' chronic impacts on health over a lifetime have been inadequately investigated and poorly understood.

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