as in ignorant
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To be ignorant of love is a willful choice when presented so honestly.Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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My ignorant questions perpetuated stereotypes, casting them into victim roles.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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The second group comprises uneducated individuals who engage in daily labor, working on both their own land and the land of others.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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If investors remain uneducated about the importance of self-custody, then any increase in demand will be met with an increase in the supply of paper bitcoin (also known as IOUs).Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Hesiod, formerly an illiterate shepherd, claimed that he was inspired to write the poem when a beautiful goddess whispered the story in his ear.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Back in the United States, President Joe Biden proposed a national rent control, an idea that’s economically illiterate and probably unconstitutional.Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
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And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
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Those afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often behave in a manner which the unlearned (or uncaring) will immediately label as criminal.Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024
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Although the 1973 commission’s report ran to 2,200 pages, some big lessons from 1973 may have gone unlearned—lessons that Israel needed to understand then and still does now.Uri Kaufman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
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To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
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Blessed with a harsh, untutored, yet inimitably soulful voice, MacGowan forged a blend of traditional Irish folk music and punk rock that was later mimicked outright by bands the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, and left a clear influence on acts such as Gogol Bordello and Mumford and Sons.Andrew Barker, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
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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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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 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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With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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“Functionally illiterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/functionally%20illiterate. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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