as in greenness
lack of experience
He blames his mistakes at the new job on inexperience.
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Recent Examples of inexperience
The aging Saints defense, though, hasn’t done enough to make up for the inexperience on offense.
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Charlotte Observer, 14 Dec. 2025
The last time the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement resulted in the 2012 debacle with replacement referees, where multiple late-game decisions were bungled due to the inexperience of the substitutes.
—Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
With the twin caveats of youth and inexperience, McCarthy has thus far failed to live up to the 10th overall pick with which the Vikings selected him.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
Mamdani used his inexperience to his advantage.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 14 Dec. 2025
The last time the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement resulted in the 2012 debacle with replacement referees, where multiple late-game decisions were bungled due to the inexperience of the substitutes.
—Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
With the twin caveats of youth and inexperience, McCarthy has thus far failed to live up to the 10th overall pick with which the Vikings selected him.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
Mamdani used his inexperience to his advantage.
—Amie Parnes, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexperience
Noun
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Satellite data shows that tundra vegetation productivity – known as tundra greenness – hit its third-highest level in the 26-year record in 2025, part of a trend driven by longer growing seasons and warmer temperatures.—
Matthew L. Druckenmiller,
The Conversation,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Here in the United States, the writer and filmmaker Mike Judge has garnered praise over the course of his career for getting laughs out of broken systems and absurd ignorance in American culture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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In these special kinds of systems, even a minuscule amount of uncertainty in the measurement of the initial state of a system very quickly compounds into complete ignorance about its future behavior.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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“Inexperience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexperience. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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