uninitiated

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Recent Examples of uninitiated 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 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. Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for uninitiated
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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The untrained eye wouldn't detect anything special in the 11-inch-tall pigeon, but Finn was incredibly quick and strong.
    Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Joseph Chiavatti, director of technology at Progressive Partners, says that process differentiates HOASnapshot from generic language models like ChatGPT and Claude, untrained on the specificities of real estate dynamics.
    Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Raman, who had endorsed Bass’ reelection before throwing her hat in at the last minute, came off as inexperienced, touchy and unprepared.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • The United States has left itself unprepared for modern war.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • Raman, who had endorsed Bass’ reelection before throwing her hat in at the last minute, came off as inexperienced, touchy and unprepared.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • They were throttled from start to finish, giving a young and inexperienced Spurs team plenty of confidence that Monday’s loss was nothing more than a fluke.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 7 May 2026
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
  • With the revision, unskilled workers in Noida will now earn approximately $147 per month, while semi-skilled and skilled workers will also see proportional increases.
    Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • While the galaxy's many limbs have been spotted before by the Hubble Space Telescope and even amateur astronomers, this image captures a uniquely striking view of its galactic beauty.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • Thomas was selected by Arizona in the second round of the 2018 amateur draft.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 May 2026

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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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