untrained

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Recent Examples of untrained 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 To the untrained human, the Puppy Bowl may look like aimless cuteness. Emma Bowman, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025 Then, in 2005, on suspicion that there was more to the painting than met the untrained eye, an art consortium bought the painting for just over $1,000. Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
Adjective
  • People with this genetic condition do not produce sufficient clotting factors, which can cause uncontrolled external or internal bleeding.
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • One Polish ministry disputed this claim, saying it was not adequately warned about the uncontrolled reentry.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 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
  • The following five organizations, ranging from a foundation focused on protecting and preserving the untamed wilds of Chile and Argentina to a 12-seat restaurant in Brooklyn using profits to fund the meals of those in need, are focused on selflessly serving the people and places around them.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Centuries later, none of New Los Angeles’ residents — skilled professionals and members of old Earth’s elite — are going to rock the boat, not with lucrative contracts with arms manufacturers and the promise of power over an untamed world hanging over them.
    Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The surge in optimism following the election of President Trump, followed by the recent sharp drop off in some surveys, suggest that both businesses and consumers were unprepared for the extent and even the nature of some of the policies now being pursued.
    Steve Liesman, CNBC, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But despite the area being prone to severe weather, many residents were unprepared for a tornado of such magnitude.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 19 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 3 Apr. 2025.

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