functional illiteracy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for functional illiteracy
Noun
  • Intersectionality proposes that societal problems such as crime and illiteracy correct themselves if opportunities and environments are evened out via public policy.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But digital illiteracy still constrains African banks’ ability to serve their customers, according to nearly 8 in 10 respondents, made up of 203 senior banking executives from 40 African countries.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Knowledge-wise, science may be advancing, but, politically, its powers of persuasion are in retreat, in a moment defined, in many ways, by ignorance and narrow-minded grievance.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The best romance fiction has the ability to fundamentally change the genre at its core, offering happy endings where only ignorance has existed.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Compare that to punk rock, which used dumbness as a tactic.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Functional illiteracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/functional%20illiteracy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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