uninitiated

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Recent Examples of uninitiated In case you’re uninitiated, Spotify Wrapped summarizes the biggest moments of your Spotify usage: your top artist, your top genre, and your top song, among others. Charley Ross, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2024 These were chosen specifically with uninitiated viewers in mind, with emphasis big musical numbers that unfortunately disqualified those with minimal or pared down songs. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for uninitiated
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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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • That’s especially true when the community is unprepared.
    Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 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
Adjective
  • In contrast, the EB-3 category is designed for skilled workers with at least two years of experience, professionals with a bachelor's degree, and other workers in unskilled positions requiring less than two years of training.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • On its website, Austin Disaster Relief Network posts daily needs, from call-center operators and coordinators to skilled and unskilled labor for demolition.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Cuomo and some other Democrats have cast Mamdani as unqualified.
    Anthony Izaguirre, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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