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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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
  • To the untrained eye, the Florida scrub ecosystem isn’t much to look at.
    Ryan St Laurent, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
  • Whether the individuals were trained or untrained, positive effects on muscle mass were seen.
    Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • Yet too many Angelenos feel forced to choose between the political establishment and an outsider unprepared for the magnitude of this job.
    Adam Miller, Daily News, 23 May 2026
  • But this year, many were caught unprepared.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
Adjective
  • The key with this inexperienced crew is patience.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • When junior employees ask similar questions, it may be interpreted as being unprepared or inexperienced.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 22 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Set in the late 1980s, the movie is a New York micro-drama about a fellow named Jimmy George — an amateur performance artist who is battling AIDS, keeping the illness at bay with AZT.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • His 19-year-old son-in-law is an amateur heavyweight fighter.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 May 2026

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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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