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Recent Examples of uninitiated
Sudoku, for those uninitiated, is the Japanese logic game that suddenly exploded in English-language media two decades ago.
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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
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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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
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Game players knew this was coming and fidgeted in their seats to see what their uninitiated friends and family would make of last night’s big The Last of Us episode.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
Adjective
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Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap.—
Clara McMichael,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Rosa and Menning were obviously unprepared for this line of questioning.—
Gaby Del Valle,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Somehow, President Businessman and his White House staffers were caught unprepared by the surge in oil prices.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Steve Ponto said his daughter means well, but is inexperienced and especially passionate.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Messi went in as a halftime substitute in the 2-1 victory over Mauritania on March 27, a result against an inexperienced opponent that did not sit well with Scaloni.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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
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Meanwhile, the women faced with that pool of socially unskilled men have largely been overlooked.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This is Ganne's sixth time playing the ANWA, which already has become as prestigious as any amateur event in women's golf, mainly because of where the final round is played.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Dozens of amateur and professional photographers were invited to find beauty in the invisible world of force fields and subatomic particles, which blip into existence for fractions of a second and hold secrets about the origin and fate of the universe.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Uninitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninitiated. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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