ignorant
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In 2026, Rushdie said violence is the tool of "the unscrupulous using the ignorant" to attack culture.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Neill plays the awkward, ignorant Scottish farmer who arranges for a mail-order marriage with Holly Hunter’s mute pianist and then becomes possessive and driven to jealous despair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Whoever thought they could strangle the U.A.E.’s economy was ignorant of its very nature,” said Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohamed bin Butti Al Hamed, head of the Dubai media office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Unerringly, they blame a sloppy and careless press or an ignorant public for failing to understand.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.
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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