unlearned

Example Sentences

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Puerto Rico’s latest natural disaster reflects a chronicle of lessons unlearned.

From Washington Post

If the fear is learned, perhaps it can be unlearned.

From Scientific American

The things that I learned when I was in high school were things that had to be sometimes unlearned in college.

From Salon

He even called George Washington a “muttonhead” and “too illiterate, unlearned, unread, for his station and reputation.”

From Washington Post

"Thus, innate cognitive biases may partially underpin tendencies to attribute mentality to entities without brains. Interestingly, studies suggest that that wide attribution of consciousness may be developmentally normal in children and subsequently suppressed or unlearned."

From Salon