untrained

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Recent Examples of untrained Jonathan Ernst | Reuters To the untrained eye, Joe Biden leaves the presidency with what appears to be a sterling economic record: hiring proceeding at a solid clip, gross domestic product on the rise and consumers still spending at a strong pace. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025 To the untrained eye, these raw records might as well be written in hieroglyphics. Lars Daniel, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 To the untrained eye, San Diego FC’s new secondary jerseys look white. Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for untrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
Adjective
  • Sepsis is a condition that leads to uncontrolled inflammation in the body and sometimes organ failure.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • And the risk of loss that comes with uncontrolled communications is profound.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • In America alone, there are currently between 60 and 100 million stray and feral cats, completely left to their fate.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • South Florida Wildlands Association responded to a comment that the mystery animal could be a feral cat, expressing some of their doubts.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2024
Adjective
  • In creator Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel on Paramount+, husband and wife Jacob and Cara Dutton (Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren) fight to protect their sprawling Montana ranch from cattle thieves, a predatory land baron (Timothy Dalton) and an untamed, unpredictable wilderness.
    Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 5 Apr. 2025
  • All ages can enjoy the beauty of untamed Florida and witness its perils during this Nature at Night program featuring a visual journey through Florida’s freshwater springs.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Photo: Focus Features/Everett Collection A Coen brothers riff on the spy genre, Burn After Reading is filled with self-mythologizing drunks, unskilled opportunists, and borderline morons.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In reference to Table 1, TRINA 1.0 was able to perform telemedicine and unskilled physical tasks.
    Kris Hauser, IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2020
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Untrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrained. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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