literate

Example Sentences

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Now, women are universally literate and make up a majority of university students.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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 The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Butler-Gallie, a parish priest in the Cotswolds in England and the author of “A Field Guide to the English Clergy,” is literate and entertaining.

From The Wall Street Journal

They also reported practices restricting online bookings to mornings and said that less digitally literate people find the system hard to navigate.

From BBC

There are many notable exceptions, but on the whole, society has become less literate, less mathematical and less able to think and reason critically.

From The Wall Street Journal