undereducated

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Recent Examples of undereducated The incalculable damage wrought is everywhere: undereducated children, increases in suicides and drug overdoses, a general coarsening of society and intensified political division. Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024 Generals blame an increasingly overweight, overmedicated and undereducated youth pool. Owen West and Kevin Wallsten, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023 Lumi felt comfortable enough to reveal that a few record labels had already approached him with offers of $10,000 for an album—an attempt, in Magana’s eyes, to exploit an undereducated teen’s naivete about how the industry really works. WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023 Many people, including those who have vitiligo, are misinformed or undereducated about the condition. Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for undereducated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undereducated
Adjective
  • This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
  • As Plato once described, Socrates taught an uneducated boy how to double the area of a square.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • So what will our ignorant commissioner do with the information?
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But criticism quickly began to pile in on Chinese social media, where users denounced the advertising stunt as ignorant of the potential environmental impacts in a remote and pristine ecosystem.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Assembly Bill 325 is economically illiterate nonsense that attempts to ban the use of pricing algorithms that help businesses determine prices.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Because most people back in Roman times were illiterate and totally disconnected from the news of the World.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But like any socialized behavior, this mindset can be unlearned.
    Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • One Battle After Another is the rare American film released in these benighted times of ours — with the backing of a major studio, no less — to be clear and insistent in the target of its anger, its despair and its prescriptions for what might make things better.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
  • With hundreds of years of patient work behind it, with some educational institutions willing to protect their scientists, and with researchers hard at work in less-benighted nations, the human desire to know and to understand will continue to produce results.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Undereducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undereducated. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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