literate
Example Sentences
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Literate Indigenous people trained in European values and customs were employed in colonial bureaucracies and police forces.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The Itinerant Literate checks all the boxes in Raffaelli’s analysis.
From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2018
Literate scholars had surely been recording their bowel movements for eons before paper was plentiful enough to wipe with.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2017
Literate people—and, thanks to the printing press, there were more of these than ever before—were eager to hear from philosophers who could give new answers to the ancient questions.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016
Literate readers rely on punctuation to guide them through a sentence, and mastering the basics is a nonnegotiable requirement for anyone who writes.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing literate
March: Book Two
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American Street
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"Shelter" by Harlan Coben, Chapters 1–6
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