as in ignorant
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
an unschooled but nevertheless intelligent woman who desperately wanted to learn how to read
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Recent Examples of unschooled
How to watch the 10 Oscar movies nominated for best picture
Heaven forbid you are unschooled for the post-Oscars discourse!
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Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
Now, instead of a master weaver being required to make cloth, an unschooled child could work a loom.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
Los Angeles officials have spoken openly about attempts to find unschooled students and help remove obstacles that are preventing them from coming to school.
—Sharon Lurye, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
To an unschooled observer, the piano appears to be in good shape, its brown, hardwood body scuffed a bit here and there, and in need of a good sanding and refinishing.
—Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2022
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Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
Now, instead of a master weaver being required to make cloth, an unschooled child could work a loom.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
Los Angeles officials have spoken openly about attempts to find unschooled students and help remove obstacles that are preventing them from coming to school.
—Sharon Lurye, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
To an unschooled observer, the piano appears to be in good shape, its brown, hardwood body scuffed a bit here and there, and in need of a good sanding and refinishing.
—Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unschooled
ignorant
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The former Fox host Tucker Carlson, who opposed such an operation, sparred with two boosters: the current Fox host Mark Levin, and the Republican senator Ted Cruz, whom Carlson revealed to be ignorant of basic facts about Iran in a clip that went viral.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Maybe LLMs get us 80% of the way there without any oversight, but skipping the context and being completely ignorant of what the machine is doing is typically not a good idea, partly for the reasons that the panelists laid out.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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