as in untutored
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Adjective
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
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To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.—
Jody Rosen,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2023
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.—
Anne Wallentine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2024
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The script apparently also features period-accurate dialogue with translations and annotations for those uninitiated to Old English.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Still, the project offered a unique opportunity to reunite iconic talent with the franchise (hi, Jennifer Tilly!) and let the screenwriter reimagine his legendary character for an uninitiated, more progressive audience.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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By limiting your potential audience to your ideal prospect, you won’t get charged for unqualified or low-value ad clicks.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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With that lofty benchmark, was the collective on-court performance that followed an unqualified success?—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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In the past year, America has suffered devastating cyberattacks, exposing infrastructure perilously unprepared for the digital age.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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That allowed a rapid throw-in that caught Genoa unprepared, eventually seeing Kenan Yildiz dribble his way through the Genoa defence and firing beyond goalkeeper Nicola Leali.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.—
Jennie Germann Molz,
Scientific American,
21 Oct. 2024
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2024
Adjective
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It was intended to be a mockery of the way White people danced, though plantation owners often interpreted slaves' movements as unskillful attempts to be like them.—
Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
6 July 2020
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As is often the case, Louie was unlucky — and also unskillful.—
Frank Stewart,
The Mercury News,
12 Mar. 2017
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The sophisticated fraud techniques emerging today are virtually undetectable to the untrained eye, or ear.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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In Psychology found in an experiment that the majority of stray, untrained dogs recruited for the research still responded to human cues and gestures.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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