preliterate
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If a child was preliterate she sent books, if floods destroyed towns she gave cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In between were larger groups of seminomadic tribes that were mostly preliterate, with more loosely fixed memberships and territorial ranges than the settled societies.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Myths themselves commonly embody the religious beliefs of ancient or preliterate peoples, but Philip Ball suggests that we are still generating them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
Reading these books aloud, as I’m doing for our preliterate child, can be a little hard to finesse.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2020
How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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