How to Use educated in a Sentence

educated

adjective
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  • These companies want an educated work force.
  • And with Joyce gone, his Ivy League–educated kids get the last word.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Without food, the survivors, part of Uruguay’s educated elite, are forced to eat the flesh of the deceased to stay alive.
    — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Now is the time to become educated about what can be done.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • My best semi-educated guess right now is Nephi Sewell, maybe as high as the fifth round.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The more educated, the more likely people are to be working from home.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • What better way to become educated than to get to travel the world?
    — Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Reasons for the decline in work for less educated men are many.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Odom was able to become more educated about the program.
    — Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2022
  • And the factors that have made the city a draw for employers, like an educated and skilled work force, remain firmly in place.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Voters may in fact prefer to choose a more educated, elite class of people to debate the issues of the day on their behalf.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, members of the diaspora are among the most educated and wealthiest in the US.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Are there women out there like her who are good-hearted and looking for a stable, educated man with whom to have a good time?
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Four decades ago, more than 90 percent of husbands were more educated than their wives.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Still hurting: less educated workers are much less likely to be able to work from home.
    — Sarah Hansen, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Pelion is the mythical home of Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who lived in a cave in the mountains and educated Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War, in the healing arts.
    — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But for the many who are, marks are easy to find among otherwise educated and cautious consumers.
    — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The advisor should be able to see the whole picture, allow all voices to be heard and make educated decisions about the next steps.
    — Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • These are the doldrums of bird season, when there are fewer shots to be made on educated greenheads and roosters.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Chun was born in 1931 in Hapcheon, in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula, to a poor but educated family.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Giolito said the last 72 have forced him to become more educated on MLB’s waiver claim process in a hurry.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • That led to the largest gap in two years in moving expectations between the least educated and those with a college degree.
    — Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The crowd that comes to my shows is very educated, and every visit is quite inspirational.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The school bombing killing the next generation of educated Hazara leaders will not be the last.
    — Knox Thames, Time, 28 June 2021
  • But, according to the very educated seat of the Ongais pants, the inescapable truth is that the bike can blow past the car and be gone from sight anyplace where there is a moderate straight stretch with which to work.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
  • The most educated 1st lady in the history of this nation.
    — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • At the other end, copyright would be denied to [works] which appealed to a public less educated than the judge…And the taste of any public is not to be treated with contempt.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Wages are now rising for the least skilled and educated, a reversal of the Obama years when most gains went to those who held financial assets.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • But immigrants from southern Europe, seen as less educated and less desirable than those from the north, were also a concern.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024
  • For the country’s many educated young people, a stable path has meant a job with the government, but that has been increasingly impossible.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024

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