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as in untutored
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Recent Examples of untrained
Every month, the site drops new fashion finds, but for the untrained eye, separating the newness from the nostalgia is no small feat.
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Annie Blackman, InStyle, 6 June 2026
The team noticed that the bees were more likely to engage in the tasks if their partners also participated, compared to untrained control groups.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026
How many untrained teen-agers got asked to audition twice?
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
International cave-diving teams are navigating jagged, zero-visibility passages while weighing whether to guide the exhausted, untrained villagers underwater or wait for receding floodwaters, echoing dilemmas from Thailand’s 2018 cave rescue.
—Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
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Annie Blackman, InStyle, 6 June 2026
The team noticed that the bees were more likely to engage in the tasks if their partners also participated, compared to untrained control groups.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026
How many untrained teen-agers got asked to audition twice?
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
International cave-diving teams are navigating jagged, zero-visibility passages while weighing whether to guide the exhausted, untrained villagers underwater or wait for receding floodwaters, echoing dilemmas from Thailand’s 2018 cave rescue.
—Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
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Müller contends that support for the referendum is motivated less by xenophobia than people’s concern that the population is growing at an uncontrolled rate.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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In uncontrolled airspace, air traffic control does not provide services; pilots are responsible for their own navigation and collision avoidance.—
Agamemnon Crassidis,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
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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
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Almost immediately, her half-feral dragon attacks Moondancer.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
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Warrior Cats is based on Erin Hunter’s feline book series that follows the adventures and drama of multiple clans of feral cats.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
18 June 2026
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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.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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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.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2026
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Fine-line tiger print details look especially good over a gold cat-eye base—sleek, striking, and just the right amount of untamed.—
Amanda Le,
InStyle,
17 June 2026
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There's nothing quite like the untamed beauty of wild horses running free.—
Madeline Gunderson,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Passing a child who is unprepared may be the cruelest act of all.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
20 June 2026
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This crisis manifests across personal lives, family dynamics, organizational trust, and societal institutions, with many feeling unprepared and disengaged.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Road accidents kill thousands in Bangladesh every year, due to a combination of poor road conditions, unskilled driving and inadequate oversight of traffic rules.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
25 May 2026
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In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2026
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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
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“Untrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrained. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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