curbstone

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Adjective
  • To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.
    Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Blessed with a harsh, untutored, yet inimitably soulful voice, MacGowan forged a blend of traditional Irish folk music and punk rock that was later mimicked outright by bands the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, and left a clear influence on acts such as Gogol Bordello and Mumford and Sons.
    Andrew Barker, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
Adjective
  • Still, the project offered a unique opportunity to reunite iconic talent with the franchise (hi, Jennifer Tilly!) and let the screenwriter reimagine his legendary character for an uninitiated, more progressive audience.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In case you’re uninitiated, Spotify Wrapped summarizes the biggest moments of your Spotify usage: your top artist, your top genre, and your top song, among others.
    Charley Ross, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Not someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in deep-state conspiracy thinking, not someone who is as unqualified as Kash Patel.
    NBC News, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • This year’s unqualified disaster will almost certainly end up as the Jets’ 56th consecutive season without a Super Bowl appearance.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The economics are changing rapidly, and the risks of being caught unprepared for some of those shocks are high enough that retailers need to pay attention in 2025.
    Lauren Parker, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But the cost of ensuring extra energy capacity is prohibitive, and many countries are unprepared for worsening conditions, said Nicolas Fulghum, a senior analyst at Ember.
    José María León Cabrera, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.
    Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2024
Adjective
  • It was intended to be a mockery of the way White people danced, though plantation owners often interpreted slaves' movements as unskillful attempts to be like them.
    Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • As is often the case, Louie was unlucky — and also unskillful.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2017
Adjective
  • While generally safe, these devices are operated by untrained individuals without the benefit of nearby medical care in case of emergencies.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Variations aside, most dugouts look roughly the same to the untrained eye, which is striking, since their makers had vastly different resources and tools.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Curbstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curbstone. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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