as in untutored
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Adjective
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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 -
Blessed with a harsh, untutored, yet inimitably soulful voice, MacGowan forged a blend of traditional Irish folk music and punk rock that was later mimicked outright by bands the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, and left a clear influence on acts such as Gogol Bordello and Mumford and Sons.—
Andrew Barker,
Variety,
30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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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The ordinance sets the maximum hours of operation at 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. for all massage businesses and sets additional guidelines for denying licenses to unqualified applicants.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
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And three Republican senators — Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell — voted against the audaciously unqualified Pete Hegseth for defense secretary (obliging Vance to break the resulting tie).—
Clive Crook,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The troops deployed there were unprepared and ill-equipped, sent to pursue objectives that could be bafflingly opaque.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Perhaps the most unsettling feature of a less vaccinated future, though, is how unprepared the U.S. is to confront a resurgence of pathogens.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 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
Adjective
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To the untrained human, the Puppy Bowl may look like aimless cuteness.—
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
8 Feb. 2025
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Some sites are invisible to the untrained eye, but at Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Connecticut, visitors can experience a reconstructed fort from 1675.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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