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as in uncontrolled
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as in untutored
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Recent Examples of untrained
His voice, untrained and unfiltered, is ubiquitous, too: used in cellphone ringtones and blared from loudspeakers.
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Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
The sophisticated fraud techniques emerging today are virtually undetectable to the untrained eye, or ear.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
In Psychology found in an experiment that the majority of stray, untrained dogs recruited for the research still responded to human cues and gestures.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Bureau staff spot tricks and traps that are invisible to the untrained eye.
—Mike Calhoun, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
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Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
The sophisticated fraud techniques emerging today are virtually undetectable to the untrained eye, or ear.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
In Psychology found in an experiment that the majority of stray, untrained dogs recruited for the research still responded to human cues and gestures.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Bureau staff spot tricks and traps that are invisible to the untrained eye.
—Mike Calhoun, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
Adjective
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Keep your fingers crossed as this uncontrolled experiment is getting bigger each passing day.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Sepsis is a condition that leads to uncontrolled inflammation in the body and sometimes organ failure.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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From Muhanga to Mesquite The first deployment from the company that would become Zipline was in 2016 in Muhanga, Rwanda, beginning with the goal of delivering vaccines and other medical supplies quickly and reliably across the untamed expanses of Africa.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Practical Information The drive, which is surrounded by wilderness, is even more untamed in the winter.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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The fraught legal battle is also taking place amid a sudden round of visa revocations among international students at some of the country’s top universities, with college officials left unprepared and searching for answers from the government.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Employers are largely unprepared to attract and retain talent, especially younger and older talent, according to Dr. Vânia de la Fuente-Núñez.—
Sheila Callaham,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Related Stories Whoever says this is unskilled work is either ignorant or lying.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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 23 Apr. 2025.
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