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Recent Examples of ignoramus Don’t let demagogues and blowhards and ignoramuses tell you otherwise. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2024 Anyone who employs the phrase is either a demagogue or an ignoramus. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 June 2023 No one is asking him to embrace the full Ginsburg and declare himself a disrespectful ignoramus. James Freeman, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021 Is there a list of protocols that I would be marked as a real ignoramus for ignoring? Washington Post, 28 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for ignoramus

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“Ignoramus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignoramus. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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