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Recent Examples of uninitiated
For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979’s Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with razor-sharp teeth and acid for blood.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 6 Aug. 2025
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 6 Aug. 2025
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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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
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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
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The early days of measles are usually marked by common symptoms such as fever and cough; to the untrained eye, the virus’s rash can look like many of the reddish, patchy blemishes that many other pathogens cause.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
26 Jan. 2026
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Southern regions unprepared for heavy snow face blizzard conditions and dangerously low temperatures.—
Kristin M. Hall,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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The environment was unprepared to carry it alongside everything else already expected.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Older, more experienced players — like Indiana’s fleet of 24-year olds — are usually better than younger, inexperienced ones, especially in this age of the transfer portal.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Tech Hamiltonians and Silicon Valley enthusiasts are often inexperienced in the ways of government and unaccustomed to the compromise and diplomacy that successful policy implementation often requires.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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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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Meanwhile, the women faced with that pool of socially unskilled men have largely been overlooked.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
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Crawford pushes back against stereotypes that frame blue-collar labor as unskilled, pointing to the intelligence required to understand the technical aspects of complex systems while translating that knowledge to customers.—
Muskaan Arshad,
Fortune,
20 Dec. 2025
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In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Buskey, who previously competed as an amateur mixed martial arts fighter in local Cage Wars events according to the Times Union, has remained in custody since his arrest in April 2024.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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