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Recent Examples of uninitiated
For those uninitiated into chronically online beauty culture, facial contrast is based on how much contrast there is between your hair color, skin tone, and the color of other facial features like your eyes and lips.
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Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
For those uninitiated, this beauty of a dish is a thick T-bone cut from the Chianina cow, simply seasoned and grilled to perfection.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
For the tragically uninitiated, The O.C. was a teen drama that aired on Fox for four seasons, from 2003 to 2007.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 26 June 2024
Lambeau Field’s historical lore is a must-see for any uninitiated NFL fan (Week 12, Nov. 24).
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
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Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
For those uninitiated, this beauty of a dish is a thick T-bone cut from the Chianina cow, simply seasoned and grilled to perfection.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
For the tragically uninitiated, The O.C. was a teen drama that aired on Fox for four seasons, from 2003 to 2007.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 26 June 2024
Lambeau Field’s historical lore is a must-see for any uninitiated NFL fan (Week 12, Nov. 24).
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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
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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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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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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
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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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Consecutive droughts in recent years have devastated livestock populations, forcing hundreds of thousands of herders to give up their traditional lifestyles and move, as unskilled workers, to sprawling towns.—
Mohamed Adow,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Apr. 2020
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Gamers have also scrutinized Musk for his odd gameplay and game setting choices that can be indicative of an unskilled player.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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