as in greenness
lack of experience
He blames his mistakes at the new job on inexperience.
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Recent Examples of inexperience
In many ways, the situation is unprecedented: No one with Kennedy’s mix of inexperience and paranoid distrust has ever held the reins at HHS.
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Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
The device itself was not unique in design, and Jabbar’s use of an electric match instead of a proper detonator indicated his inexperience with explosives, Jackson said.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2025
And that is just indicative of his inexperience and lack of understanding of how that material might be set off.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2025
Some of it was Carter's fault, through his rigidity and inexperience.
—James Fallows, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
The device itself was not unique in design, and Jabbar’s use of an electric match instead of a proper detonator indicated his inexperience with explosives, Jackson said.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2025
And that is just indicative of his inexperience and lack of understanding of how that material might be set off.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2025
Some of it was Carter's fault, through his rigidity and inexperience.
—James Fallows, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Inexperience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexperience. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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