ignorance

Example Sentences

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“Despite my curiosity, I decided that my ignorance was less important than the existence of this microcosmic ecosystem in a veritable desert.”

From Literature

"Because Sarah has this wealth of knowledge and she's learning how much people don't know through talking to me, I like to think my ignorance in the DIY arena is helping us, inadvertently," Wortsman said.

From BBC

Perry "observed everything about Japan from a position of almost total ignorance of the country", said Jessamyn R. Abel, professor of Asian studies at Penn State University.

From Barron's

In the long term, they rely on ignorance — an erasure of knowledge to leave people believing that there was ever anything different than what is.

From Los Angeles Times

As I reported earlier, however, their efforts to tell it like it is were confounded by their own ignorance.

From Los Angeles Times