literate
Example Sentences
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Seeing Gloria write her name for the first time, seeing Alfredo read his name for the first time, how incredible to have witnessed them becoming literate.
From Literature
They want to graduate functionally literate young people, not hand kids a diploma that says they showed up for class for 12 years.
Her superb collection of essays gathers up relics of the old world—the literate one—to demonstrate that such treasures are worth preserving.
Now, women are universally literate and make up a majority of university students.
“My overarching goal is to just be a good influence on younger people and have it built in a way where there’s educational content and help people become more financially literate.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
