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Recent Examples of uninitiated
To uninitiated visitors, the store might have looked like a wash of white, but Mrs. Schacter ensured that no bride would be lost in a sea of tulle.
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Emily Langer, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
One of the most exciting new capabilities of AI is to instruct untrained and uninitiated people to acquire medical-grade images through a smartphone.
—WIRED, 28 Jan. 2023
There’s a lot to learn here for the young and uninitiated about physics and the properties of cement and steel and the like, but in its own structure the book shows signs of strain.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
In 2015, Johnson was an uninitiated and undersized 225-pound tackle.
—Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
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Emily Langer, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
One of the most exciting new capabilities of AI is to instruct untrained and uninitiated people to acquire medical-grade images through a smartphone.
—WIRED, 28 Jan. 2023
There’s a lot to learn here for the young and uninitiated about physics and the properties of cement and steel and the like, but in its own structure the book shows signs of strain.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
In 2015, Johnson was an uninitiated and undersized 225-pound tackle.
—Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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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
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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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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
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Most wine lovers know that the word Sauvignon comes from the French word sauvage and the word blanc simply means white, but most people don’t know the reason is because when untrained vines of the variety have a distinctly unkempt appearance.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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Together, the films aimed to capture a modern child’s perspective, with untrained leads and fairy-tale logic, but ended up weighted down by liberal worldliness and anxieties: Wild Things ruminated on mental health, Beasts on climate change.Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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Most of them will be entirely unprepared. vulture games 5:00 a.m.Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Blood from the victim, asleep at the time and unprepared for the vicious assault, splashed onto the sleeves of the suspect’s lime green windbreaker, an FBI special agent claimed in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 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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With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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Fritz could acquire land near the city, hire both skilled and unskilled labor, and insert his new company in the trade and finance links the city had with the outside world, thanks to the social capital present in the city and his access to it.Peter Vanham, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
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The researchers use a number of examples: the toolmaking done by our primate relatives, asking unskilled humans to make a stone tool, and random chipping of rocks.John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
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But experts say there's little evidence many of the services have clinical benefits and warn the demand for care could provide a potential harbor for unqualified or under-qualified clinicians peddling dangerous or untested treatments.Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
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The Association of Plastic Recyclers encouraged the FTC to increase enforcement against deceptive unqualified claims of both recyclability and recycled content.Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
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Despite the exhibition’s dynamism and appreciated efforts to frame each work for the viewer, the accompanying wall text and political readings felt thin and inexpert at times.Dallas News, Dallas News, 6 May 2022
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The procedure is not without risk: The mortality rate from tellurium injections is 12 percent, and can rise as high as 68 percent for children when the work is performed by an inexpert hand.Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
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