adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eye
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All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye , were blobs and shadows.
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There was a lot of blood lying on the surface of what might have been flesh to an untrained eye .
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But he knew what he was looking at, though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments.
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To the untrained eye , the two products look remarkably similar.
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To the untrained eye , pretty pictures count for more than interesting spectra; neither are they without scientific interest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Untrained nurses are not allowed to treat patients who are seriously ill.
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The records are confusing to anyone untrained in accounting.
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Their army is made up mostly of untrained volunteers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But we had an untrained and undisciplined group, with too many leaders, and things started to break down.
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Its recommendations focus on dangers posed by the public's exposure to pesticides and their use by untrained people.
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Their untrained but nervous eyes, and rumour, vastly exaggerated both the ferocity and size of the advancing army.
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These untrained observers should witness a ten-kiloton explosion somewhere on Earth about once a year.
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Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card.