illiterate
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In her second term, she introduced a constitutional amendment to reserve 45 seats in the legislature for female MPs, and worked to educate young women - in a country where 70% of them were illiterate.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
Because so many incoming students were numerically illiterate, the university added a remedial class for middle- and elementary-school math.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
As Irish journalist and author Fintan O’Toole notes, by the mid-20th century, “the self-mocking joke was that most Irish people were illiterate in two languages.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
Over a third of lower-caste Indians are illiterate, compared to roughly a fifth on average.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025
How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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