How to Use educated in a Sentence

educated

adjective
  • These companies want an educated work force.
  • Without food, the survivors, part of Uruguay’s educated elite, are forced to eat the flesh of the deceased to stay alive.
    Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Now is the time to become educated about what can be done.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • My best semi-educated guess right now is Nephi Sewell, maybe as high as the fifth round.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The more educated, the more likely people are to be working from home.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • What better way to become educated than to get to travel the world?
    Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Odom was able to become more educated about the program.
    Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Voters may in fact prefer to choose a more educated, elite class of people to debate the issues of the day on their behalf.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, members of the diaspora are among the most educated and wealthiest in the US.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Are there women out there like her who are good-hearted and looking for a stable, educated man with whom to have a good time?
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Four decades ago, more than 90 percent of husbands were more educated than their wives.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Pelion is the mythical home of Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who lived in a cave in the mountains and educated Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War, in the healing arts.
    Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But for the many who are, marks are easy to find among otherwise educated and cautious consumers.
    Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The advisor should be able to see the whole picture, allow all voices to be heard and make educated decisions about the next steps.
    Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Chun was born in 1931 in Hapcheon, in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula, to a poor but educated family.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Giolito said the last 72 have forced him to become more educated on MLB’s waiver claim process in a hurry.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd that comes to my shows is very educated, and every visit is quite inspirational.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe, even if just for a day, the broad discussion about this Cowboys team can become slightly more educated.
    Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The image of a strong but tender, elegant, highly educated and street-smart Black mother on prime-time TV was a thumb on the scale against stereotypes.
    Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Gen Z is more educated and affluent than their parents, the country now has too few white collar jobs for them.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Right now there is more demand than supply of educated workers, Giles said.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2022
  • But the process also requires a certain amount of educated guesswork.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In more marriages now, women are more educated than their husbands, Aragão says.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Dionne and Rapoport note that people who vote are Whiter, older and more educated than the overall population.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • As a brown man with a Muslim name, the author felt perceptions shift around him despite his educated, elite status.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2022
  • Higher pay should be prodding at least some less educated, lower-wage workers to return to the labor force.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Those arriving here tend to be younger and more educated than the overall population in Texas.
    Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • While Clark is a bright, educated man, his father described his son as naive and innocent, Russell said.
    oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The new Iraq offers more promise for educated young Iraqis like Muammel Sharba, 38.
    John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • What seems to make educated people uncomfortable, though, is the idea that the mass public shares this skepticism.
    The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021

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