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illiteracy

[ih-lit-er-uh-see] / ɪˈlɪt ər ə si /
NOUN
inability to read or write
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STRONG


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In response to interruptions from across the Senedd floor, he replied: "Have a look at illiteracy rates for students graduating."

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

He referred to a 10-point plan that Caribbean nations have put to European nations, including international debt cancellation, as well as support for healthcare and illiteracy eradication.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

Walsh treats well-documented, widely accessible historical facts as if they were buried state secrets, weaponizing the baseline historical illiteracy of his audience to construct a narrative of deception.

From Salon May 20, 2026

If this isn’t done we will continue to have high levels of illiteracy at the secondary level and in adulthood.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

But what she wanted to do, in essence, was create a learning epidemic to counter the prevailing epidemics of poverty and illiteracy.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Oborne and Roberts usefully memorialise Trump at his most naively tawdry, and preserve some treasurable illiteracies.

From The Guardian Nov. 1, 2020

Particularly as they addressed themselves to missionaries, they wished to warn them away from such illiteracies as might undermine their capacities to propagate the faith.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.




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