illiteracy
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In response to interruptions from across the Senedd floor, he replied: "Have a look at illiteracy rates for students graduating."
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
He referred to a 10-point plan that Caribbean nations have put to European nations, including international debt cancellation, as well as support for healthcare and illiteracy eradication.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
After confessing his illiteracy on TikTok, a fitness influencer discovered that his online audience was ready to help him learn to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
That is, it's the product of media incompetence and public illiteracy.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
When they were finally freed, after a series of slave rebellions, their new masters were poverty, illiteracy, and lack of economic opportunity.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Oborne and Roberts usefully memorialise Trump at his most naively tawdry, and preserve some treasurable illiteracies.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2020
Particularly as they addressed themselves to missionaries, they wished to warn them away from such illiteracies as might undermine their capacities to propagate the faith.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
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A Raisin in the Sun
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