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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.
—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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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
Adjective
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At the age of 10, Elizabeth would see first hand what would happen when her mother, an uneducated woman with six children, would have to support herself on her own.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Words with letters dropped off the end or entire phrases strung together to form new words were seen as improper speech of the uneducated and poor.—
Moriah Humiston,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Trump is either too ignorant or mentally challenged — and dangerous — to continue as president.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Excluding industry from the room doesn’t make for ‘independent’ policy but sets the table for ignorant policy.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Naïve little girls growing up illiterate in a conflict zone.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
25 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Repeal the benighted Jones Act, which raises energy and shipping costs.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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Repeal the benighted Jones Act, which raises energy and shipping costs.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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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By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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 25 Apr. 2026.
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