illiterate
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That guidance suggests that teenage girls in particular are illiterate about their own bodies, and as a result make poor health decisions.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
She sent all her atas to school along with her children because "if someone is illiterate, there are many things they won't understand."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
In this adaptation, Anna Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney, and he’s no longer an illiterate rube but a successful restaurateur who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
A self- made man, the illiterate, illegitimate, neglected son of an army captain, he ached with dreams of wealth and chivalric glory despite the fortune he had already acquired in the Spanish colonies.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
Carlson at one point complained about “the illiterates posing as political analysts on your TV,” presumably on rival networks.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
Thus, contract laborers were excluded in 1885, immoral persons and anarchists in 1903, and illiterates in 1917.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
Female illiteracy levels in India are high; indeed it is estimated that there are more female illiterates in India than in the rest of the world combined.
From Forbes ● Feb. 23, 2015
Like many other illiterates, she prided herself particularly on her sturdy common sense.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
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