be versed

If you dare venture out, it’s a good idea to use the buddy system and be versed in wilderness first aid.

His humble origins and apparent lack of advanced education are factors, because the author of the plays appeared to be versed in a number of languages as well as in aristocratic habits.

As Salon's TV critic Melanie McFarland points out, the show taps into a level of cultural specificity that's typically been reserved exclusively for shows and movies centering white people, which rely on "the assumption that non-white people should be versed in white culture with no expectation of reciprocity."

And they're using the fact that we've never seen such plots play out in rural Oklahoma, or written and filmed by Indigenous creatives, to tell non-Native people something about themselves, especially with the expectation of non-white people to be versed in white culture with no expectation of reciprocity.

To appreciate its importance, you didn’t need to be versed in science, just as you don’t need to be religious to be awestruck by Notre Dame.