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Noun
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There is a romance of illiteracy here, as if poetry should be looked at instead of thoughtfully read.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025 -
One act of economic illiteracy would therefore sabotage both Medicaid and Medicare simultaneously.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Trump’s disdain for classic neoliberal U.S. soft power — and for the values and institutions that uphold it — is likely to hurt American interests in just the same way his tariff regime and utter ignorance of real-world trade theory do.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2025
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The pathos here thus depends largely on the reader’s total ignorance of Vietnamese.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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“Functional illiteracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/functional%20illiteracy. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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