untrained

Definition of untrainednext

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Recent Examples of untrained Whether the individuals were trained or untrained, positive effects on muscle mass were seen. Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026 The untrained eye wouldn't detect anything special in the 11-inch-tall pigeon, but Finn was incredibly quick and strong. Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026 Joseph Chiavatti, director of technology at Progressive Partners, says that process differentiates HOASnapshot from generic language models like ChatGPT and Claude, untrained on the specificities of real estate dynamics. Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026 Greenhaven had racked up years of health violations, including from letting untrained workers administer medications, lacking enough employees to care for people with dementia, and neglecting a resident who smeared feces over his body, bed, floor, and bathroom, the notice said. Jordan Rau, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for untrained
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Adjective
  • Safety and efficacy have not been evaluated in pregnant women, pediatric users, people with active cancer or cancer in remission, or users with uncontrolled hypertension, hypotension, bradycardia or tachycardia.
    Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • Well, maybe, but on the other hand, a massive uncontrolled experiment on a global scale that can impact mental health might not be the best course of action for humankind.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
Adjective
  • No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Managed and feral honey bees also played critical roles in pollinating crops brought over by European settlers, including apple and cherry trees and clover, which provided food for livestock and their communities.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • In this Gallic Neverland, there’s not a safety helmet (or nervous parent) in sight, which admittedly adds to the film’s feral energy.
    Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 25 May 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Here, against the intimate interiority of this elegant narrative, untamed urges clash with Confucian ideals of filial piety and Buddhist undertones of the suffering caused by worldly attachments.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • The untamed beauty of nature takes center stage in the spring 2027 campaign images captured by Ami Vitale, the National Geographic explorer at large, photographer and filmmaker.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
Adjective
  • The car’s unveiling in Monaco, on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix, caught media and industry unprepared.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 June 2026
  • This Knicks playoff run has revealed how unprepared the city is for its growing fandom.
    Jeremy Rellosa, Curbed, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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

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“Untrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrained. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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