illiterate
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As the conversation gets rolling, she digs into her roots, explaining that her maternal grandmother was an illiterate indentured servant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
"Digital technology is an opportunity we cannot miss," she said, warning that "those who do not adapt risk becoming the illiterate of the 21st century".
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
In the novel, Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the Democratic presidential nomination to Buzz Windrip, who is described as “vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily discredited,” but wins the election in a landslide.
From Salon • May 17, 2025
People have published financial advice for generations, but vertical video apps have empowered financially illiterate creators to push their ideas directly to other financially illiterate users.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2024
Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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