unsophisticated

Example Sentences

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This isn’t really about sophisticated firms being punished by unsophisticated ones, although there’s some of that.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Everything fell: oil prices, the dollar, even gold, because investors were shocked by how unsophisticated and draconian the policy was.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Critics of the plan argue that the guardrails that limit access to private markets are necessary to protect unsophisticated investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Since the mid-2010s - and since Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - the Premier League has attracted Europe's best coaches, putting a once sleepy and unsophisticated division at the vanguard of tactical innovation.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

I had come to the army as an escape from my life—as many men did, I suppose—and though I’d had a complex and rougher childhood than most, I was still virtually unsophisticated.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen