illiteracy
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The singer’s upbringing, particularly her father’s illiteracy and his shame around what he considered a shortcoming, was what inspired her to launch the Imagination Library.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
This included asking for a full formal apology, cancelling foreign debts and investment to tackle illiteracy and public health issues.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
After confessing his illiteracy on TikTok, a fitness influencer discovered that his online audience was ready to help him learn to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
Desperation, deep poverty, and illiteracy drove women to take the risk of cohabiting with men such as truck drivers and soldiers, those with steady jobs or who wielded the power of intimidation.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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 Richard L. Spear
Vocabulary lists containing illiteracy
A Raisin in the Sun
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