as in educated
having or displaying advanced knowledge or education
the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows
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Recent Examples of literate
Studies show that financial trauma can lead to avoidance behaviors, chronic underinvestment, and hesitancy in wealth-building strategies, even among financially literate women.
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Alejandra Rojas, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Today, few Americans—even few historians—could describe the ins and outs of the case, but in the forties almost any literate American could have told the tale.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Reading isn’t hard-coded into our genome, like the capacity for speech is, and until recently, only a small minority of humans were literate.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
In the interim, governments will need to build robust frameworks to integrate early quantum technologies into public systems, which will require considerable investments in infrastructure, workforce training and the development of quantum-literate policies.
—Yuval Boger, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Alejandra Rojas, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Today, few Americans—even few historians—could describe the ins and outs of the case, but in the forties almost any literate American could have told the tale.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Reading isn’t hard-coded into our genome, like the capacity for speech is, and until recently, only a small minority of humans were literate.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
In the interim, governments will need to build robust frameworks to integrate early quantum technologies into public systems, which will require considerable investments in infrastructure, workforce training and the development of quantum-literate policies.
—Yuval Boger, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literate
Adjective
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Obstacles to home ownership left Black families poorer and less educated than whites, disparities that helped to drive lower rates of voter turnout among Blacks in southern states than in the rest of the country until the 1990s, and lower turnout than whites until the 2008 election.—
Made by History,
TIME,
25 Mar. 2025
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Through collaboration, everyone from vets to pet parents can start embracing AI for better pet health outcomes: getting rid of Dr. Google, anxiety and moving toward a more educated and conscious way to treat pets and their diseases and needs.—
Massimiliano Melis,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.—
Cyril Labbé,
The Conversation,
31 Jan. 2025
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Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
Fox News,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The lighting is sufficient for patrons to take it all in, and the sound level, despite the size of the room, has been successfully brought down to a civilized level.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Even a hearing on the proposal to arm school staff is equal parts passionate and civilized, as the majority gun-owning constituents don’t all agree that the Second Amendment should extend to the classroom.—
Lauren Wissot,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Literate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literate. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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