curbstone

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curbstone
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Among the 200 laws proposed was one enabling the government to cancel any Supreme Court decision by a simple majority, and another permitting the government to appoint unqualified loyalists to key positions without any review or explanation.
    Ron Scherf, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • People don’t generally rally behind leaders who seem removed or unqualified.
    Raja Walia, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And going in unprepared could leave you in a precarious financial situation.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Structural Problems Hold Companies Back From Compliance Regulators now expect real-time transparency, strong internal controls and proactive risk management—yet most organizations remain unprepared, heightening their exposure to enforcement actions.
    Nosa Omoigui, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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
  • Relations only continued to tank when, in 2020, American mercenaries attempted to overthrow the Venezuelan government in an amateurish scheme.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • People who understand the process of diplomacy think that this is very amateurish and is unlikely to yield real results that are enforceable.
    Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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