illiterate
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She sent all her atas to school along with her children because "if someone is illiterate, there are many things they won't understand."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
An Education Department study in 2024 found that 1 in 4 young adults are functionally illiterate, even though more than half received high-school diplomas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
In this adaptation, Anna Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney, and he’s no longer an illiterate rube but a successful restaurateur who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
In her second term, she introduced a constitutional amendment to reserve 45 seats in the legislature for female MPs, and worked to educate young women - in a country where 70% of them were illiterate.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
He was illiterate, and had a wife and six children back in a tribal reserve.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Carlson at one point complained about “the illiterates posing as political analysts on your TV,” presumably on rival networks.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
The unintended consequences of do-goodism by cultural illiterates.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
But these illiberal cultural illiterates instead wanted curtains for the offending Elizabethan play.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2017
Thus, contract laborers were excluded in 1885, immoral persons and anarchists in 1903, and illiterates in 1917.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
Like all illiterates who cannot glut on the newspapers their appetite for gossip, she was insatiable for it in talk.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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