uninitiated

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Recent Examples of uninitiated The script apparently also features period-accurate dialogue with translations and annotations for those uninitiated to Old English. Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025 Still, the project offered a unique opportunity to reunite iconic talent with the franchise (hi, Jennifer Tilly!) and let the screenwriter reimagine his legendary character for an uninitiated, more progressive audience. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024 In case you’re uninitiated, Spotify Wrapped summarizes the biggest moments of your Spotify usage: your top artist, your top genre, and your top song, among others. Charley Ross, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2024 For those uninitiated into chronically online beauty culture, facial contrast is based on how much contrast there is between your hair color, skin tone, and the color of other facial features like your eyes and lips. Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for uninitiated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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
  • 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
  • An untrained defendant has no knowledge of the substantive law, the Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Rules of Evidence, or how to protect the record for appeal by objecting.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Analysts in Colombia agree that Maduro's internal military personnel are untrained, disloyal, and that many cannot be located.
    Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And going in unprepared could leave you in a precarious financial situation.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Structural Problems Hold Companies Back From Compliance Regulators now expect real-time transparency, strong internal controls and proactive risk management—yet most organizations remain unprepared, heightening their exposure to enforcement actions.
    Nosa Omoigui, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the election, Reform has tried to refashion itself from a protest vote party to one that could govern – untried and inexperienced, but ready to step in if the Labour Party buckles under its own blunders, and the once-mighty Conservatives drift further into political irrelevance.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • His emergence has enabled a talented, inexperienced team find its early identity.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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
Adjective
  • For the unskilled makeup amateurs among us, the face-sculpting technique of contouring is a little too intimidating.
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When an unskilled injector offers up undereye filler, the more serious side effects can even include blindness or stroke.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The novel dials up the danger for the group of amateur detectives when an old friend from Elizabeth's (played by Mirren in The Thursday Murder Club movie) spy days comes back from her past.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Szczerek is an amateur tennis player and competes in a local tennis league in Poland, The Times reported.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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