illiterate
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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
“Without laborers,” she writes, “who were often illiterate and almost never speak for themselves in historical texts—there would have been no Mughal Empire.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
They want illiterate, groveling serfs, who live in fear and don’t stick around too long.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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