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uneducated

[uhn-ej-oo-key-tid, -ed-yoo-] / ʌnˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪ tɪd, -ˈɛd jʊ- /


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“As a nation we’re sorely uneducated when it comes to financial literacy,” said Daniel Milan, managing partner at Cornerstone Financial Services.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Then, he proceeded to inform me that rather than be put off by this, I should be grateful for the new information so I could fix my error and not appear to be uneducated.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

"Don't make me feel uncomfortable because you are uneducated."

From BBC May 10, 2026

Through public-records requests, residents obtained internal messages from city officials that many in Festus find disparaging, including one referring to data-center opponents as a “sideshow of uneducated people.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

We can see a foreshadowing of this in the group of people which surrounded Gilbert as he conducted experiments on magnets, but for the most part these were fairly uneducated navigators.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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