as in literate
having or displaying advanced knowledge or education
the lettered crowd is well acquainted with the author, but the average reader probably hasn't heard of him
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Recent Examples of lettered
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 June 2025
Checkpoint 2 is part of plan to combine five lettered checkpoints into three numbered ones.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2025
Consider Your Hair Type Hair types divide your hair’s growth pattern and texture into numbered, lettered categories.
—Ava Erickson, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2025
The most robust plan types — lettered F, G and N — are the most popular, according to KFF, but F plans cannot be sold to new beneficiaries who turned 65 after Jan. 1, 2020, because of a change in federal law.
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
They are categorized by size into lettered groups according to strength:
X-class: The strongest
M-class: 10 times weaker than X
C, B and A-class: Progressively weaker, with A-class flares typically having no noticeable effect on Earth.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 June 2025
Checkpoint 2 is part of plan to combine five lettered checkpoints into three numbered ones.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2025
Consider Your Hair Type Hair types divide your hair’s growth pattern and texture into numbered, lettered categories.
—Ava Erickson, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2025
The most robust plan types — lettered F, G and N — are the most popular, according to KFF, but F plans cannot be sold to new beneficiaries who turned 65 after Jan. 1, 2020, because of a change in federal law.
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettered
Adjective
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The house in which I had been raised was literate but not artistic.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Oct. 2025
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Unsurprisingly to the economically literate, rent prices went down and more properties became available to rent.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Younger also shared a few black-and-white photos, including one of her and her husband holding their baby girl in the hospital and another of Arya wearing a onesie with her name printed on the front.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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As Texas governor a decade ago, Rick Perry printed his felony mug shot on a T-shirt for supporters.—
Brandon Rottinghaus,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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One of the mistakes Americans made in Iraq was to believe that the Iraq of the 1970s—highly educated, generally secular, with functioning bureaucracies—still existed.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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For decades, scientists have had to make educated guesses about conditions under the shelves that buttress Antarctica’s massive glaciers.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Much scholarly attention is also paid to the science of electrical storage, enabling a body to function as a permanently recharged battery, and to the use of an enormous lightning-rod mechanism, which will harness lightning from atop an isolated tower, where Victor conducts his experiments.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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The study, published on the open-access scholarly article archive, arxiv, has not yet been peer-reviewed.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The psychological thriller, penned by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning writer Tracy Letts (Coon's real life husband), cultivates fear slowly.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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The trio of vehicles feature sleek designs penned by Pininfarina, expanding interiors, and a slew of smart features that’ll make your time away from home as comfortable as possible.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The boot brand, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has inked a deal with 101 Studios and Paramount encompassing product and branding integration in multiple episodes this season.—
Jennie Bell,
Footwear News,
6 Nov. 2025
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Kelvin Yu has inked a multi-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, Variety has learned exclusively.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Showalter, the director of The Idea of You and The Big Sick, co-wrote the film with Chandler Baker.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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The duo are known for their directing work, but the opportunity to work as writers on a movie series that was a childhood favorite to them both, and to work with Columbus, who also wrote 1980s classic The Goonies and directed Home Alone, was too good to pass up.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The president seemed to be heading toward political exile, his election claims destined to be inscribed in history as treasonous lies.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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On Anderson Boulevard, a couple blocks off State Street in Geneva, sits a modest building inscribed with the name Enigma.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Lettered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettered. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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