untrained

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Recent Examples of untrained The Pinnacle's importance to emerging, independent-minded, hard-touring country acts To the untrained eye, The Pinnacle is a raw bandbox that feels like a split-level airplane hangar where superstars play pop music. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 The best disruptions don’t always come from the experts, but from the untrained eyes bold enough to see things differently. Duncan Wardle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 May increase fatigue: Standing uses slightly more energy than sitting and uses muscles differently than sitting, which may contribute to fatigue, especially in untrained individuals. Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 24 June 2025 Even to the untrained eye, the images were easily identifiable as AI-rendered (the word curfew came out looking like ciuftew). Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for untrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
Adjective
  • Indeed, of the roughly 500 uncontrolled blazes in Canada, 305 were being monitored.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • According to the Texas Invasive Species Institute, snail damage in uncontrolled fields can be as high as 100 percent for rice seedlings in the germinating stage.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Wild pigs, also known as feral swine, have been in the U.S. since the 1500s.
    Vanessa Countryman, USA Today, 22 July 2025
  • However, this remarkable biodiversity was nearly destroyed following the introduction of invasive mammals brought by humans – specifically, feral sheep and domestic cats.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 July 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
  • Kruger National Park, however, awakens with untamed life at dawn—think lion roars echoing across the golden savanna and hyenas cackling in the distance.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There’s less untamed aggression, as there sometimes can be with men directors.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even after bearing witness to this, however, Crutcher was completely unprepared for just how much hair Crosby would have when he was born.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • That’s the reality facing today’s enterprises, and many are unprepared for it.
    Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For the unskilled makeup amateurs among us, the face-sculpting technique of contouring is a little too intimidating.
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When an unskilled injector offers up undereye filler, the more serious side effects can even include blindness or stroke.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Aug. 2025
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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