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know-nothings
Noun
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How about the Hollywood know-nothings Susan Sarandon or Mark Ruffalo, who have so much to say about the suffering of Hamas terrorists but not a peep for people being brutalized and murdered by actual terrorists?—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Illiterates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illiterates. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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