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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undereducated
Adjective
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The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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But there are also Black folks who are ignorant of this.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The vast majority of the population was illiterate.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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But like any socialized behavior, this mindset can be unlearned.—
Ruth Oh Reitmeier,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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In particular, a conviction that the Internet and free trade would attract benighted countries toward liberal democratic capitalism became commonplace.—
BENN STEIL,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
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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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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
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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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“Undereducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undereducated. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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