uninitiated

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Recent Examples of uninitiated 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 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. 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 See all Example Sentences for uninitiated 
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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
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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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Without architectural knowledge, untrained developers may make decisions that undermine system integrity.
    Kiran Yelamaneni, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the high notes Grande hits are, to the untrained here, amazing.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • An Unprepared Management Team The primary risk in aggressive growth is an unprepared top management team.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The thought of appearing unprepared or unknowledgeable can be stressful, especially in a big team meeting or in conversation with more senior colleagues.
    Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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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
  • 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
Adjective
  • With a background in education, Westhoff and Masood came up with the idea of a hybrid, online and offline, academy that would train up unskilled workers - many of them migrants - who might otherwise be working in fast food outlets or for delivery firms.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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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  • Yet many of his other nominees are not just unqualified, but may be downright dangerous.
    Chris Coons, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
  • By contrast, Netanyahu and his allies envisage that the incoming Trump administration will bring unqualified U.S. support for Israel.
    Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 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
  • 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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