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as in uncontrolled
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as in untutored
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Recent Examples of untrained
Planets look like bright stars to the untrained eye, so don't be fooled by AI or influencers.
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
To an untrained eye, Taylor Swift just talked for 2 hours on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce’s, podcast New Heights and announced her new album The Life of a Showgirl.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
Additional analysis also revealed that the typical short-nosed dog from their survey is more often smaller, young, unneutered, untrained, kept exclusively indoors, and allowed on the bed more frequently than other dogs.
—Laura Baisas Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
The documents flagged multiple cases of falsified vaccination records, health workers being replaced by untrained relatives and workers improperly administering vaccines.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
To an untrained eye, Taylor Swift just talked for 2 hours on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce’s, podcast New Heights and announced her new album The Life of a Showgirl.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
Additional analysis also revealed that the typical short-nosed dog from their survey is more often smaller, young, unneutered, untrained, kept exclusively indoors, and allowed on the bed more frequently than other dogs.
—Laura Baisas Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
The documents flagged multiple cases of falsified vaccination records, health workers being replaced by untrained relatives and workers improperly administering vaccines.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
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Reinforce Change Management With Staged Rollouts As with any outage, Pennsylvania’s 911 failure highlighted how uncontrolled changes—whether in hardware, software or configurations—can disrupt critical systems.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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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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There is something feral in the onrush of Marlowe’s verse, with the gleam of bared teeth daring us to laugh.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Some of the most notable included the iconic bell tower, the central fountain, the roaming pack of feral cats, and the massive gingko trees that loomed over a section of the academic quad and carpeted the sidewalks with golden leaves each fall.—
Katherine Polcari,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 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
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2024
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The extravagant approach mirrors the hero’s untamed energy, all to yield a genuinely spectacular film.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
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What would the American West be without untamed mustangs roaming the plains?—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Aug. 2025
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And going in unprepared could leave you in a precarious financial situation.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
1 Sep. 2025
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Structural Problems Hold Companies Back From Compliance Regulators now expect real-time transparency, strong internal controls and proactive risk management—yet most organizations remain unprepared, heightening their exposure to enforcement actions.—
Nosa Omoigui,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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For the unskilled makeup amateurs among us, the face-sculpting technique of contouring is a little too intimidating.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Vogue,
7 Aug. 2025
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When an unskilled injector offers up undereye filler, the more serious side effects can even include blindness or stroke.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
4 Aug. 2025
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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