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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a chip off a regular gray rock.
    Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • To the untrained eye, the shop is full and ready for spooky season.
    Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Most of the hikers were unprepared for the weather, according to Vilaine.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The question is whether turmoil among China’s brass hats signals a military unprepared for a mammoth undertaking like a Taiwan assault.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But let’s face it, the Red Wings have looked a bit inexperienced at times so far, too.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The helmers cycle through a year’s worth of seasons for Zhenya and Anatolij Pilipenko, inexperienced farmers who envisioned a new life for themselves and their two young daughters.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 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
  • The network also reported female health workers saying that their newer colleagues were likely to be unskilled women who came from Taliban-loyal families.
    NPR, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the rest of the roster is too big and unskilled, a downstream consequence of buying into the fiction that Davis is a power forward.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1979, amateur archaeologists in Essex recovered multiple aircraft components, some of which were connected to Lowry’s plane and its crash site.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Throughout the film, del Toro flits and hovers between contradictory ideas, with the restlessness of the beautiful butterflies that Elizabeth, an amateur entomologist, likes to study.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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