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Recent Examples of uninitiated
For the three people left in the world who remain uninitiated, breakout stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play Shane Hudson and Ilya Rozanov, two rival hockey captains who fall in love over the course of a decade of yearning and clandestine hookups.
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2026
For those uninitiated, the McRib is sort of a big deal.
—Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
The Marvel faithful will appreciate the seeds the show planted to kick off Phase Four of the MCU, and the Marvel uninitiated will enjoy watching Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany engage in a playful romp, pleasures that were denied their characters during their earlier movies.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Sudoku, for those uninitiated, is the Japanese logic game that suddenly exploded in English-language media two decades ago.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2026
For those uninitiated, the McRib is sort of a big deal.
—Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
The Marvel faithful will appreciate the seeds the show planted to kick off Phase Four of the MCU, and the Marvel uninitiated will enjoy watching Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany engage in a playful romp, pleasures that were denied their characters during their earlier movies.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Sudoku, for those uninitiated, is the Japanese logic game that suddenly exploded in English-language media two decades ago.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
Adjective
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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.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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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.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 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
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The earliest historians of midwifery argued that this was a progressive story of the triumph of expertise and science and reason over the superstitions and backward practices of untrained female midwives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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Beyond that, though, the Americans cannot afford to start with a thud, not with so many untrained eyes finally paying attention.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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But in other areas of the country, court systems are unprepared for diverse linguistic needs.—
Carol Rose Little,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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In seeking to increase the number of students from certain racial groups, the current UC admissions policy is setting up unprepared students to fail, oftentimes while saddling them with many thousands of dollars in student loan debt.—
Adam B. Summers,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
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At $18 or even $15 per hour, many companies don’t see value in hiring inexperienced teens who require extensive training to interact with customers, let alone achieve some measure of productivity.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Lagway’s depature after 19 starts leaves the Gators to choose between two talented, yet inexperienced options with just one combined start — by Philo against Gardner-Webb in 2025.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 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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Road accidents kill thousands in Bangladesh every year, due to a combination of poor road conditions, unskilled driving and inadequate oversight of traffic rules.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
25 May 2026
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In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2026
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Inside the house, a 33-year-old amateur gunsmith who goes by the pseudonym Yeezy wondered what to do.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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In hacker circles, such moves are considered amateur mistakes.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2026
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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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