unpracticed

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A productive music scene, as Mr. Gould proposes, requires regular, low-stakes stages for unpracticed artists to discover themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

“The irony is obvious,” says Greenamyre, a shy man with a dry sense of humor and a penchant for practical jokes who, to the unpracticed eye, shows few if any signs of the disease.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2023

“I knew people who refused to debate him,” Balling added, recalling the frustrations of some scientists, highly trained in their fields but unpracticed in the political arena, who were called upon to spar with him.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2022

A prime example is a momentary facial expression that lasts no longer than a quarter to a half a second and is virtually invisible to an unpracticed observer.

From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2021

Furthermore, he discovered that Mallinsbee, though possibly unpracticed in the work of a big financial undertaking, yet possessed all, and more, of the shrewdness he had vaguely suspected.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell