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Recent Examples of undereducated
Too many men overlook it or are undereducated about it.
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R. Eric Thomas,
The Denver Post,
3 Oct. 2024
The incalculable damage wrought is everywhere: undereducated children, increases in suicides and drug overdoses, a general coarsening of society and intensified political division.
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Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
9 Jan. 2024
Generals blame an increasingly overweight, overmedicated and undereducated youth pool.
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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.
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WIRED,
19 Oct. 2023
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R. Eric Thomas,
The Denver Post,
3 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undereducated
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The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.
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The hillbilly is portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and unsophisticated; they are often depicted as being unkempt in appearance, perhaps noticeably dirty or walking around barefoot.
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Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.
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And using both words does not reveal that a person is ignorant but rather cosmopolitan.
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While about 90% of the Black population in Southern states were illiterate in 1865, this percentage dropped to 70% by 1880.
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The residents of the adjacent villages were largely illiterate rice farmers, who worked their fields by day and illegally cut down trees by night.
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De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.
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But this time there would be no panel from the National Endowment of the Arts sifting through the applications, no oversight from cultural officials and benighted curators—the usual process.
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He’s introduced it to diners in formerly benighted, hash-less regions, including Texas.
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
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When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.
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Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.
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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.
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
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“Undereducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undereducated. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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