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Recent Examples of uninitiated
The Marvel faithful will appreciate the seeds the show planted to kick off Phase Four of the MCU, and the Marvel uninitiated will enjoy watching Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany engage in a playful romp, pleasures that were denied their characters during their earlier movies.
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James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Sudoku, for those uninitiated, is the Japanese logic game that suddenly exploded in English-language media two decades ago.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979’s Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with razor-sharp teeth and acid for blood.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 6 Aug. 2025
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
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James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Sudoku, for those uninitiated, is the Japanese logic game that suddenly exploded in English-language media two decades ago.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979’s Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with razor-sharp teeth and acid for blood.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 6 Aug. 2025
To the rescue of those uninitiated of the ins and outs of professional golf came renowned golf influencer Paige Spiranac, who dedicated a post on her X profile, which has more than one million followers, to explaining the issue.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninitiated
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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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By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 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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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
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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
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In December, Chelsea’s players looked inexplicably unprepared for the intensity of this long-time rivalry and were caught out via defensive errors.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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In the years that followed, Koh worked as a food delivery rider, a parcel courier, a bar worker and a livestreamer selling mobile accessories – experiences that fed directly into the third film’s portrait of a young man thrown unprepared into adult life.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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Maybe the bright lights of a win-or-go-home playoff game proved too big of a moment for a young, inexperienced Hawks team.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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Edmonton showed off its postseason poise in Game 5, throttling the Ducks in a 4-1 victory and putting the onus on their inexperienced opponents to finish off the series.—
Greg Beacham,
Los Angeles Times,
1 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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With the revision, unskilled workers in Noida will now earn approximately $147 per month, while semi-skilled and skilled workers will also see proportional increases.—
Mayu Saini,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.—
Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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Odom was divorced from Herbert Odom, a prominent Black South Side dentist and amateur boxer.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Here, research has revealed, for example, how audience and journalistic frames interact and compete in liveblogs, where in a space of potential co-production, journalists still reframe amateur contributions by appending their own frames onto them.—
Daniel Jackson,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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