How to Use educated in a Sentence

educated

adjective
  • These companies want an educated work force.
  • The girls were already much more educated and evolved than the boys.
    Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Part of that has to do with the fact that this is the most educated part of the district.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The key is to find people who can make educated guesses, not just take shots in the dark.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • What better way to become educated than to get to travel the world?
    Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The more educated, the more likely people are to be working from home.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Young mothers, for example, tend to be less educated, and thus may earn less.
    Jamie Ducharme, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Four decades ago, more than 90 percent of husbands were more educated than their wives.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • That group was young, educated women.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The crowd that comes to my shows is very educated, and every visit is quite inspirational.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The key takeaway from shoppers in stores is that consumers are more educated than ever before.
    Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Those who are educated and understand where hip-hop comes from know that the Bronx deserves most of the credit.
    Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Researchers must make educated guesses to test the most likely phase values and confirm the ones that best fit the data.
    Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The decline in trust in government is more pronounced among the unemployed, the less skilled, and the less educated.
    Jeff Frieden, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • That led to the largest gap in two years in moving expectations between the least educated and those with a college degree.
    Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The voters who could decide control of Congress tend to be whiter, older and more educated than the rest of the country.
    Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Adults who are older, less educated, uninsured, or rural saw no meaningful increase.
    Jonathan Slater, STAT, 13 May 2026
  • In fact, members of the diaspora are among the most educated and wealthiest in the US.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2021
  • My super-duper smart friend Ben Affleck is very well educated on it and has just sold that company to Netflix.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • It is visited on the poor and the rich, the least educated and the most, people with a strong and deep network of friends and family and those without a support structure.
    Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Education also plays a role, with more educated women tending to have fewer children.
    Manuela Castro, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The shutdown has piled new pressures on Iran’s once large and educated middle class, already struggling in the face of a prewar currency crash.
    ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The shutdown has piled new pressures on Iran's once large and educated middle class, already struggling in the face of a prewar currency crash.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Preseason polls are, at best, educated guesses, and there are perennial calls to abolish them altogether.
    Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Any predictions about the impact of AI on music, as with any industry, remain educated guesswork.
    Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2026
  • To me, this is the story of many young Latinos—educated, ambitious and skilled, stepping into roles of leadership with confidence.
    Ana Valdez, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026

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