uncredentialed love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Not having proper credentials.

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  • adjective US Alternative spelling of uncredentialled.

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Examples

  • Where two or three years ago there was hardly anything that could not be traced to a newspaper story or broadcast, today my "news" is at least 50 percent created from what might be termed uncredentialed journalists doing original reporting and commentary.

    HorsesAss.Org 2009

  • Academic scholars have a great need to feel superior to the mass of unenlightened and uncredentialed readers -- I will foreswear the temptation to speculate on why this is the case -- and increasingly academic literary scholars found it necessary to consider themselves superior even to the writers and the literary texts they ostensibly study.

    Literary Study 2009

  • Five weeks training does not make these uncredentialed grads "highly qualified," despite the recent shenanigans by Congress.

    Sue Peters: Why I Am Not A Defender Of The 'Status Quo' In Education Sue Peters 2011

  • "Police strongly believe the motive was to put World Cup security in a bad light and possibly to profit from this act," Cele said of the June 18 incident in which the uncredentialed Joseph entered the dressing room after England drew 0-0 with Algeria at Cape Town's Green Point Stadium.

    Simon Wright, Sunday Mirror Journalist, Accused Of Orchestrating World Cup Security Snafu 2010

  • The biggest splash was made by the case of the Groves brothers—a federal Prohibition agent, a former secretary of the state Democratic Party, and a third, uncredentialed brother—who, the Times said, “disposed” of half a million gallons “through ‘paper’ Jewish congregations represented by men professing to be rabbis but who in reality were bootleggers.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • The biggest splash was made by the case of the Groves brothers—a federal Prohibition agent, a former secretary of the state Democratic Party, and a third, uncredentialed brother—who, the Times said, “disposed” of half a million gallons “through ‘paper’ Jewish congregations represented by men professing to be rabbis but who in reality were bootleggers.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • With the help of this uncredentialed blogger, you can turn your banking system around, save civilization as we know it, and still have time to do the laundry.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bank insolvency: tips & tricks 2009

  • With the help of this uncredentialed blogger, you can turn your banking system around, save civilization as we know it, and still have time to do the laundry. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bank insolvency: tips & tricks 2009

  • McCain has already made it known that he resents Obama making any sort of comment at all about military issues; its sort of as if McCain feels entitled to hold any position in that subject area without having to answer to anyone about it, particularly someone as militarily uncredentialed as Obama.

    Obama Hits McCain Again: "We Don't Need More Leaders Who Can't Admit They've Made A Mistake" 2009

  • I would guess that within just a few years there won't be more than a handful of the sole proprietor, uncredentialed bloggers of today even cited anymore, although there may be a few who survive with communities and a large readership.

    Are the Days of Independent Political Bloggers Numbered? Digby and Atrios Chime In 2009

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