uninitiated

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Recent Examples of uninitiated 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 These were chosen specifically with uninitiated viewers in mind, with emphasis big musical numbers that unfortunately disqualified those with minimal or pared down songs. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 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 For those uninitiated, this beauty of a dish is a thick T-bone cut from the Chianina cow, simply seasoned and grilled to perfection. Jenn Rice, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for uninitiated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 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
  • Even to the untrained eye, the images were easily identifiable as AI-rendered (the word curfew came out looking like ciuftew).
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
  • Why palm trees need their own playbook Unlike oaks or maples, palms face unique biological threats—many of which are invisible to the untrained eye.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Yet, many households are woefully unprepared to meet the challenges this entails.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.
    Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 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
  • Two thirds of them were unskilled working-class men.
    Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2025
  • That doesn't mean that those employees were unskilled.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • The program has been an unqualified success — both for McDonald’s franchisees, which have used it to cultivate a skilled, loyal workforce, and for their employees, who appreciate the ability to earn and learn simultaneously.
    Ryan Stowers, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time on June 25 after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fired all 17 original members on June 9, replacing them with members that critics have called unqualified.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite the exhibition’s dynamism and appreciated efforts to frame each work for the viewer, the accompanying wall text and political readings felt thin and inexpert at times.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • The procedure is not without risk: The mortality rate from tellurium injections is 12 percent, and can rise as high as 68 percent for children when the work is performed by an inexpert hand.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022

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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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