How to Use without the aid of in a Sentence

without the aid of

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  • The next night, the Rangers scored an insurance run without the aid of homer.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And, crucially, which looked most presentable without the aid of an iron?
    Ashley Ogawa Clarke / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal , WSJ, 16 June 2023
  • Warner said the Marine Mammal Care Center staffs 17 people and would have been crippled without the aid of volunteers.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • And yet, in a tiny packet, without the aid of a stove, somehow, Smith has developed comparable flavors.
    Hannah Selinger, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Previous research has shown that seals in captivity, when blindfolded, can even use their whiskers alone to hunt, without the aid of sight.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Wowed by Johnson’s delivery, Cowell took a moment after the performance to request that the tween sing the chorus of the track without the aid of the backing instrumental.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 31 May 2023
  • Fetterman started having brief phone calls without the aid of text transcription.
    Kara Voght, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • London’s experience shows that a congestion fee helps to keep fumes down without the aid of a global catastrophe.
    Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • The experiment was designed to solve one of the great mysteries of the natural world: how certain spider species are able to ascend miles in the sky and travel hundreds of miles over land and sea without the aid of wings.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • All of this simply could not be accomplished without the aid of software and artificial intelligence.
    Cris Burnam, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • All of this simply could not be accomplished without the aid of software and artificial intelligence.
    Cris Burnam, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Mathematicians have since drastically simplified the proof and verified the computer code, but to this day, no proof of the theorem without the aid of computers is known.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
  • Unlike other film competitions, however, the movies submitted told their stories in visual terms without the aid of voices or sound effects.
    Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Apple’s running dynamics are impressive for what the Watch tracks, especially without the aid of a secondary device, as is needed with competitor devices.
    Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Later on, as machine learning and artificial intelligence research continues, products like this may be able to help blind people see without the aid of others.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 May 2022
  • In 1976, the vessel embarked on a historic trip from Hawaii to Tahiti without the aid of navigational tools, in what was intended as a display of wayfinding’s technical sophistication.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
  • Especially for those early on in their lifting journey, understanding how to maintain a neutral wrist position without the aid of these accessories is crucial.
    Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 1 July 2023
  • Since 1991, most of America's enemies have been relatively low-tech armies without the aid of satellites, long-range weapons, cyber forces, or electronic warfare capabilities.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
  • And these collective activity patterns are too complicated for humans to grasp without the aid of mathematical tools.
    WIRED, 3 Oct. 2022

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