What's the difference between unearned and unlearned?

Unearned


Definition:

  • (a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My generation, buying homes in the 1970s, has seen the value of property soar above inflation every year: unearned, untaxed wealth caused by scarcity from failure to build.
  • (2) Updated at 9.38pm BST 9.35pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 2, bottom of the 4th Matt Moore is on the hook for both of those runs, just in case anyone doesn't believe that the rules for earned and unearned runs are dumb.
  • (3) This is now, when house prices are spiralling out of the reach of ordinary households, benefitting the few as their unearned asset rises in value while the wages of the many stagnate.
  • (4) New progressives want to reshape the tax base fundamentally, towards greater taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than of people.
  • (5) There are many old people sitting on mountainous property wealth generated by multiple bubbles, an unearned bonanza that has never been taxed.
  • (6) Hunt adds: “However, I should be clear that, whilst there may well be some within our party who see equality as an end in and of itself, I am not one of them … The fundamental task of progressive politics remains to ensure the opportunities enjoyed by the powerful are spread to the powerless.” Hunt, who will call for a new focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the “unfair and outdated” council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband’s Labour failed to make an effective case against inequality.
  • (7) Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the “undeserving rich” , whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
  • (8) This allows people with a residency to legally avoid paying state income tax on so-called “unearned” income, such as dividends, interests and retirement benefits.
  • (9) The new tax would be a charge of 15% on unearned income and income from investment, he said, only applying to those paying the additional rate of tax for earnings of £150,000 a year or more.
  • (10) Yes is the answer, the Boston Red Sox , who capitalized on St Louis' mistakes to the tune of three unearned runs, even if they only needed two for the win, thanks to the animal in John Lester, who was lights out...again They would up with eight, a tremendous sign for Sox bats that were in a serious slump despite reaching the Fall Classic.
  • (11) Women face very real barriers, men are given very real unearned benefits, and these are collective social problems.
  • (12) Those who subscribe to such a view also deem income from benefits as somehow "unearned", yet there is very little "unearned" about it.
  • (13) Two other remuneration reports have also been defeated this year, at housebuilder Bellway, where investors objected to an unearned bonus, and at Provident Financial, where there was a 51% protest vote against a 20% pay rise for Peter Crook, the Provident Financial chief executive.
  • (14) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people."
  • (15) Both the Lib Dem leader and business secretary, Vince Cable , signalled on Saturday that the party would only entertain the abolition of the top rate in the long run if it was not raising much revenue and if it was replaced by new taxes on "unearned income".
  • (16) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people.
  • (17) Given these are but a few of the unearned advantages of being a white woman, they might just want to listen to their sisters about their economic, social and literal states of death as much as they demand - and maybe buy them a cup of coffee before they beat them to the pearly gates.
  • (18) Like that of Wallace and Thatcher, his "middle" comprises the "productive" members of society opposed to the "unproductive", the parasites living on "unearned" income.
  • (19) A mansion tax – a levy on rich homes – is thus eminently justifiable, as is a tax on unearned increases in land value.
  • (20) But the phrase stuck as Labour presided over a top rate of income tax of 83p in the pound, with an additional 15p tax on unearned income.

Unlearned


Definition:

  • (a.) Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
  • (a.) Not gained by study; not known.
  • (a.) Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) It is behaviour that is learned and it can be unlearned.
  • (3) The cannabinoids produce a variety of effects on unlearned behavior in different animal species.
  • (4) Just as Labour learned (and then unlearned) that economic credibility is a precondition of electoral victory, so the Tories grasped that they must be trusted as custodians of public services.
  • (5) We suggest that the learned features of oscine songbird vocalizations are controlled by a telencephalic pathway that acts in concert with other pathways responsible for simpler, unlearned vocalizations.
  • (6) The preference for the proper face stimulus by infants who had not seen a real face prior to testing suggests that an unlearned or "evolved" responsiveness to faces may be present in human neonates.
  • (7) Similarly, studies which assess responding to cues thought to signal drug use in the natural environment (e.g., the sight of someone injecting heroin) have not adequately assessed whether such cues have unconditioned (unlearned) effects.
  • (8) John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor , has persuaded most of the world’s rock star economists – Mazzucato herself, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz and more – to go on tour with him around the UK to get the voters to #unlearn Labour.
  • (9) This process of unlearning retards the learning of the new contingency.
  • (10) Overall, findings suggest unlearned pecking preferences for short and long wavelengths, with minimums at green.
  • (11) Livingstone, who is a member of the NEC, tweeted: The Guardian view on Labour: grudges nursed, lessons unlearned | Editorial Read more Livingstone said that if Fisher was being suspended, the party should also take action against the MPs Simon Danczuk and Frank Field.
  • (12) Teaching is often delegated to junior house staff and early bad habits are difficult to unlearn in post-graduate training.
  • (13) #Unlearn is a smart way of selling the idea of a change of direction.
  • (14) (1) Overregularization errors are relatively rare (median 2.5% of irregular past tense forms), suggesting that there is no qualitative defect in children's grammars that must be unlearned.
  • (15) Hence, so long as they were unlearning these customs gradually and by the way, as one may say, under careful watching, they were not disturbed by the change in their manner of life, and were becoming different without knowing it."
  • (16) It is concluded that cerebral cortex plays an important role in the regulation of unlearned, innate activities with the overall behaviour of the organism.
  • (17) These results imply that organized visual perception is an unlearned capacity of the human organism.
  • (18) Those "dumb spots" resulting from unlearned theory, especially in those areas where psychoanalysis is widening its scope of diagnostic categories, age range, and socioeconomic status, are not considered countertransference errors.
  • (19) There are few careful studies of the effects of solvents on unlearned animal behavior during acute exposure, despite the importance of the prevention of acute behavioral or neurological effects in the workplace.
  • (20) These experiments were conducted to determine (1) whether dorsal and ventral ascending spinal pathways can each mediate unlearned supraspinal nocifensive responses of cats to noxious thermal stimuli and (2) whether interrupting the spinal projection of supraspinal monoaminergic neurons alters the excitability and natural modulation of these responses.

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