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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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For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979’s Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with razor-sharp teeth and acid for blood.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
6 Aug. 2025
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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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Not every visit was an unqualified victory.—
Noam Levey,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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The last point is something everyone, right or left, can agree is an unqualified good.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Most of the hikers were unprepared for the weather, according to Vilaine.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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The question is whether turmoil among China’s brass hats signals a military unprepared for a mammoth undertaking like a Taiwan assault.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 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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This annoyed Potter, who felt holding talks in such a public place was an amateurish move.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bannon, for his part, slammed Kennedy's effectiveness as health secretary, calling his efforts to implement an anti-vaccine agenda unserious and amateurish.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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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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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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