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as in uncontrolled
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as in untutored
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Recent Examples of untrained
Unfortunately, when untrained people try to copy these stunts, the outcome can be very different.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
The fate of each untrained contestant in the wilderness lies in the hands of their family members back in HQ.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 May 2025
Enzo Maresca There’s a particular sort of person who tends to celebrate goals, wins, anything to do with sporting success really, not with obvious expressions of happiness, but with an intensity that might look like anger to the untrained eye.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 11 May 2025
To the untrained eye, torpedo bats don’t look all that different from standard bats.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
The fate of each untrained contestant in the wilderness lies in the hands of their family members back in HQ.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 May 2025
Enzo Maresca There’s a particular sort of person who tends to celebrate goals, wins, anything to do with sporting success really, not with obvious expressions of happiness, but with an intensity that might look like anger to the untrained eye.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 11 May 2025
To the untrained eye, torpedo bats don’t look all that different from standard bats.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
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Three Welcome, Myth Busting Wins Firstly, the report is clear that ADHD remains under diagnosed in the UK, a not a rampant, uncontrolled Tik Tok trend.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Contact your dentist or primary care provider to determine the cause of uncontrolled gleeking and ways to prevent it or treat underlying conditions causing it.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
19 June 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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Advertisement Dawn of the Dead (1978) There's a credible case to be made that Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, about a biological weapon that causes residents of a small town to go feral, qualifies as a zombie movie.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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There are tribes of fast, feral predators that resemble the second coming of neanderthals.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 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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After a childhood spent dreaming of the open range, one writer makes good with an untamed ride across Idaho.—
Carrie Dennis,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2025
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From elephant seals and seabirds to migrating whales and resident orcas, these destinations offer front-row access to the Golden State’s raw, untamed nature up close.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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Yet, many households are woefully unprepared to meet the challenges this entails.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.—
Kathy Baughman McLeod,
Time,
24 June 2025
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Two thirds of them were unskilled working-class men.—
Christopher R. Browning,
The New York Review of Books,
27 Mar. 2025
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That doesn't mean that those employees were unskilled.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
5 May 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 2 Jul. 2025.
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