untrained

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Recent Examples of untrained Jonathan Ernst | Reuters To the untrained eye, Joe Biden leaves the presidency with what appears to be a sterling economic record: hiring proceeding at a solid clip, gross domestic product on the rise and consumers still spending at a strong pace. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025 Yet even as Hamas has successfully recruited new, untrained, young fighters, the majority of Gazans in the Strip are completely disillusioned regarding Hamas's leadership. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 Mitchell and Bowers started with four identical copies of an untrained language model. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025 But the fourth – payment – could be a sign that taking on an untrained worker is no benefit at all to employers, but rather a cost. Ryan Craig, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
Adjective
  • As a result, many chronic diseases remain uncontrolled for years, leading to worsening health and skyrocketing medical costs.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Based on preliminary information, the Falcon 9 rocket part was dragged out of orbit in an uncontrolled manner, which is likely why the vehicle appeared to reenter Earth’s atmosphere over Europe and crash-land this week.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Feb. 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
  • Scrim was squeezed into a trap that had been set for feral cats.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • More than 80 domestic cats, among many other types of mammals, have been confirmed to have had bird flu since 2022 -- generally barn cats that lived on dairy farms, as well as feral cats and pets that spend time outdoors and likely caught it by hunting diseased rodents or wild birds.
    Sarah Boden, ABC News, 10 Feb. 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
  • This wild, untamed region of northern Spain struck a familiar chord, evoking scenes from Vicky Cristina Barcelona—but with a richer, more rugged soul.
    Jenn Rice, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
  • More untamed than the mob-wife coat, which leans more glamorous in a 1980s way, the yeti coat piles on the fuzz, often comes in bold colors, and essentially steals focus from whatever the wearer has on underneath.
    Rosana Lai, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • However, some federal agencies are unprepared for the full return.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • With its eye on Hezbollah, Iran’s heavily armed Shiite ally in Lebanon, Israel was wholly unprepared for the devastating ground assault launched from Gaza by Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that was also backed by the Islamic Republic.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In reference to Table 1, TRINA 1.0 was able to perform telemedicine and unskilled physical tasks.
    Kris Hauser, IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2020
  • Consecutive droughts in recent years have devastated livestock populations, forcing hundreds of thousands of herders to give up their traditional lifestyles and move, as unskilled workers, to sprawling towns.
    Mohamed Adow, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 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 4 Mar. 2025.

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