as in literacy
the understanding and information gained from being educated
the university's head librarian exuded an aura of learnedness
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Noun
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The education department’s agreements with the Department of Labor have also caused delays in administering adult education, family literacy and career and technical education (CTE) programs, according to the senators.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
28 May 2026 -
Every month, the participating families will receive $500 in cash, $500 deposited into a credit union account, and have access to financial literacy classes.—
Dennis Valera,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob declined to join Sacramento’s campaign, preferring to buy an existing team rather than wait years for expansion, three people with knowledge of the situation said.—
Michael McGough. Story produced with AI assistance,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2026
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Every retirement article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of investment products.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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The ruling caps a dramatic downturn in the longtime educator’s two-decade career in urban education, according to the Associated Press (AP).—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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The resort tapped Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment to lead their marine education and exploration program, and is a cut above other Maldives resorts for edu-oceanic activities.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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This includes my place not only as a writer—who like my grandfather had, is writing books, teaching college, and engaged in psychoanalytic thought—but also as a someone who has similarly dedicated her life to the pursuit of learning, understanding, and expression through language.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Civil adoption can generate early data, operational learning and scale.—
Greg Ombach,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Check first on employer benefits, grants, scholarships and other ways to pay that may not require repayment.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
30 May 2026
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The man himself remains oddly elusive even after two centuries of scholarship, mythmaking, debunking and patriotic embalming.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
30 May 2026
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In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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In her coda, Woo writes with great compassion and erudition about what can’t be found in archives, particularly the specifics of how Ellen Craft died.—
Nicholas Boggs,
The Atlantic,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Learnedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/learnedness. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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