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Recent Examples of uninitiated
For those uninitiated into chronically online beauty culture, facial contrast is based on how much contrast there is between your hair color, skin tone, and the color of other facial features like your eyes and lips.
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Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
For those uninitiated, this beauty of a dish is a thick T-bone cut from the Chianina cow, simply seasoned and grilled to perfection.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
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
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Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
For those uninitiated, this beauty of a dish is a thick T-bone cut from the Chianina cow, simply seasoned and grilled to perfection.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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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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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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To the untrained eye, these raw records might as well be written in hieroglyphics.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article To the untrained eye, San Diego FC’s new secondary jerseys look white.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Stratton and Elizondo believe the stigma around aliens and UFOs to be a national security threat leaves Americans woefully unprepared for developments that could change the trajectory of humanity.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2025
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The Antarctic weather is also unpredictable, with sudden cold snaps that could be fatal to an unprepared insect.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
8 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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In reference to Table 1, TRINA 1.0 was able to perform telemedicine and unskilled physical tasks.—
Kris Hauser,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 May 2020
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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
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The capitulation to Trump was manifest in Senate Republican’s refusal to block any of the president’s cast of unqualified and dangerous nominees to serve in senior cabinet positions.—
Mordechai Gordon,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s profoundly unqualified defense secretary, made the malice clear by calling explicitly for Brown’s ouster along with that of any other officer involved with DEI.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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