weaned

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Adjective
  • The seemingly militaristic act of archery and peaceful meditation may seem diametrically opposed.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Drawing on an astonishing wealth of references to the metaphor of two ships by figures from the early colonial era through the Civil War, Reynolds lops off the Quakers and the Scotch-Irish in favor of the groups that came first and seemed most antithetically opposed—Puritan and Cavalier.
    James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • Over the same period, entry-level head count at the high-intensity firms rose 12%, contradicting predictions and fears that young or inexperienced workers would be most at risk of losing their jobs to AI.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Immer and Lois work with land stewards to find projects that make sense for eager but often inexperienced volunteers.
    Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Adjective
  • Other solutions are new to the industry, which is notoriously risk averse, so adoption of new processes and products is challenging and slow.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The disorienting change will be tricky to implement in a way that appeals to risk-averse US financial institutions and other firms, according to former Treasury officials, sanctions attorneys and industry sources monitoring the process.
    Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • But while viewers know what’s up from The Fall’s start, Northern Ireland’s unseasoned law enforcement officials haven’t a clue who’s behind the body count.
    Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • Founders who think high spending on technology is a badge of success recall those from the dot-com era, when unseasoned executives ignored business basics, many even arguing that profits were no longer important.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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“Weaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weaned. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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