know-nothing

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Recent Examples of know-nothing The first half hour is filled with the weirdly neutral techno jargon of soldiers jabbering code words into their headphones to what I (as a know-nothing) am tempted to call Mission Control. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025 Even as Republicans embrace him as an iconoclast, Democrats and other critics have lambasted Kennedy as a know-nothing without the scientific or bureaucratic experience to do the job effectively. Vox Staff, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025 Instead, Fuego was a know-nothing machine that based its decisions on random choices and statistics. Jonathan Schaeffer, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2014 Who knew the know-nothing King in the North had capitalist ambition? Zoe Guy, Vulture, 2 July 2024 That end would be a story not so different from the one told by Miles Davis of his encounter with a know-nothing politician’s wife at a White House reception. Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024 Before appointing Satoshi Morimoto, one of Japan's top national security experts, the current prime minister tapped two know-nothing legislators for the post of defense minister -- a result of paying more attention to party politics than a prospect's ability or vision. Takashi Yokota, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2012 Have these know-nothings asked Hamas for their freedom? Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 May 2024

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“Know-nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/know-nothing. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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