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Recent Examples of untaught 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 With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life. David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023 Being untaught in our schools, as so much of our history has been. Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 23 June 2022 Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light. Deepti Hajela, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2021 But where untaught formlessness is the ideal, the formative character of such an enterprise is suspect, a threat to the authentic, untutored self. Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untaught
ignorant
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Untaught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untaught. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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