ignorant
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"When I detected a little lump on my testicle... I was just ignorant of my own health - I just thought I'll get on with it," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Patients with the behavioral variant of FTD, many of whom I’ve studied for years, become impulsive and apathetic and completely ignorant of social cues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Benjamin Franklin said that “being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Only those stubbornly ignorant to the human cost of actual combat would be psyched to bring on more of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
I knew I should be drunk with gratitude that I, an ignorant girl who’d crawled out of a scrap heap, should be allowed to study there, but I couldn’t summon the fervor.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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