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Musk’s blind and ignorant closing of USAID has blacked out our billboard to the world of what America is about.—
Llewellyn King,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025 -
For one thing, Overstreet seemed set on portraying Black history in a way that was neither overly dour nor entirely ignorant of past violence.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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In response, the governor suggested the president was uneducated about water policy, and declined to criticize him when asked about Democrats’ response to the brief pause in federal funding for state governments.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Feb. 2025
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The majority of those who move here are uneducated and poor and nearly all become economic burdens on the U.S., either directly or indirectly.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2025
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To listen to him tell it, in English heavily accented by his native Romansh, this was a peaceful place for illiterate, yet skilled mountaineers and off-piste skiers who know far too much about avalanches.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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But, oh my goodness, the label Aotearoa New Zealand taunts and provokes the insecure, the historically illiterate, the status-grabbing, the conceited, the dominating, and those for whom the myths and lies of the settler story are truth, are the one world worldview.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And, of course, speedily deport those who misbehave. — George W. Price, Chicago Our benighted states The only renaming of place that is called for in this age of Donald Trump is the United States of America.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Those afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often behave in a manner which the unlearned (or uncaring) will immediately label as criminal.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Sep. 2024
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Although the 1973 commission’s report ran to 2,200 pages, some big lessons from 1973 may have gone unlearned—lessons that Israel needed to understand then and still does now.—
Uri Kaufman,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2023
Adjective
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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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To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.—
Jody Rosen,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2023
Adjective
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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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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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“Functionally illiterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/functionally%20illiterate. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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