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The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.
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The hillbilly is portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and unsophisticated; they are often depicted as being unkempt in appearance, perhaps noticeably dirty or walking around barefoot.
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Let’s hope that George Santayana’s warning to those ignorant of history about the past repeating itself makes an exception for our present Defense Department.
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And then there are amateur collectors like me, who might not know ironstone from porcelain, but whose last day on earth could be spent touching old objects in ignorant bliss.
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
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While about 90% of the Black population in Southern states were illiterate in 1865, this percentage dropped to 70% by 1880.
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The residents of the adjacent villages were largely illiterate rice farmers, who worked their fields by day and illegally cut down trees by night.
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But this time there would be no panel from the National Endowment of the Arts sifting through the applications, no oversight from cultural officials and benighted curators—the usual process.
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Repeal the benighted Jones Act, which raises energy and shipping costs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
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The brand has come to signify rugged, often uncultured New York grit, its actual working-class relevance and celebration in seminal rap lyrics feeding internet snarkers’ stereotypes of city dwellers.
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In certain circles, identifying with the city is shorthand for being uncultured and self-obsessed, even soulless.
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“Unknowledgeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowledgeable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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