as in education
the understanding and information gained from being educated
he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence
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Recent Examples of literacy
Kimberly Guerin, superintendent of Madison Elementary, said the district has been working to improve early childhood literacy and chronic absenteeism across the district.
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Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
For example, Anthropic is providing access to its AI fluency course while OpenAI is opening up its literacy courses from its academy.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
Purchases help fund its mission to promote literacy among Louisville children by distributing books to families and providing a free community library at its shop on Bardstown Road in the Highlands.
—Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
Noah McCormack on literacy and class.
—Literary Hub, 1 Nov. 2025
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Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
For example, Anthropic is providing access to its AI fluency course while OpenAI is opening up its literacy courses from its academy.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
Purchases help fund its mission to promote literacy among Louisville children by distributing books to families and providing a free community library at its shop on Bardstown Road in the Highlands.
—Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
Noah McCormack on literacy and class.
—Literary Hub, 1 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literacy
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Many young consumers, already juggling high costs for food, rent, and education, and crushed by an unsympathetic labor market, are entering adulthood with the self-care budget of a socialite twice their age.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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The food hub's work now focuses more on education.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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Like most fiction, it’s made up of experiences, imagination, ideas, memories, emotions, speculation, knowledge and research.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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At the time, maps were restricted, and knowledge of geography limited.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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His learnings from working with the mass retailer have played into this ethos of designing great wardrobing for the luxury woman, which has played into the designer’s global expansion.—
Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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Using deep reinforcement learning The new system uses deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to guide a robot, much like human hand-eye coordination.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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In addition, Blaze Pizza will donate $1 from every pizza sold that day to Folds of Honor, which provides educational scholarships to military families.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Nov. 2025
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The scholarship, entirely funded by the school with the approval of the Renne family, will be awarded yearly to a deserving student from the second, third or fourth years of the undergraduate course.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Literacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literacy. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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