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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
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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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To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Donlon’s suit comes a week after four former top NYPD officials filed suits of their own with similar allegations — that unqualified members who were connected to the executive staff were funneled into high profile units.—
Mark Morales,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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Cuomo and some other Democrats have cast Mamdani as unqualified.—
Anthony Izaguirre,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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Issues surrounding Gen Z run the gamut from being unprepared to enter the workforce to lacking in motivation to unable to take feedback.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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That’s especially true when the community is unprepared.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 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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It was intended to be a mockery of the way White people danced, though plantation owners often interpreted slaves' movements as unskillful attempts to be like them.—
Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
6 July 2020
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As is often the case, Louie was unlucky — and also unskillful.—
Frank Stewart,
The Mercury News,
12 Mar. 2017
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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
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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
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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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