literate
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Fighting back by being financially literate means a steady message of pay yourself first, live within your means and think about your future self.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
Her superb collection of essays gathers up relics of the old world—the literate one—to demonstrate that such treasures are worth preserving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
They also reported practices restricting online bookings to mornings and said that less digitally literate people find the system hard to navigate.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
A lot of people who claim to be AI literate merely produce “workslop”—generic, low-quality material.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing literate
March: Book Two
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American Street
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"Shelter" by Harlan Coben, Chapters 1–6
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