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
Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
In one current promotion, a balding man in a sport coat sits in front of an American flag and a shelf of gold-leaf lettered books explaining that President Trump can and will run for a third term.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Checkpoint 2 is part of plan to combine five lettered checkpoints into three numbered ones.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 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
The divisions are lettered from Alpha through Lima; some are smaller, some a little bigger, depending on how challenging the search areas are, McQuarrie told CNN.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
In one current promotion, a balding man in a sport coat sits in front of an American flag and a shelf of gold-leaf lettered books explaining that President Trump can and will run for a third term.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Checkpoint 2 is part of plan to combine five lettered checkpoints into three numbered ones.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 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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My grandmother, who was the only literate one in our family, would write strange musings.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2026
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This is a period that some people call post-literate.—
Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Once printed, less prurient versions of these portraits would be displayed below the marquee at the Teatro Maipo, like religious icons in a vending machine, on the street-level exterior of the venue.—
Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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It’s been 40 years since Guy Harvey printed the first T-shirt of a marlin at an Oakland Park shop that would spark a multimillion-dollar apparel business and support his other mission at the Guy Harvey Foundation.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The Democratic coalition was disproportionately young, lower-income, less educated, and nonwhite—all demographics that were less likely to vote and more likely to be prevented from doing so if friction was added to the voting process.—
Marc Novicoff,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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New Orleans, Julian reported, had fewer than two thousand Jewish families—relatively educated, secure, established, Reform.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In December, Summers was dealt a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated to economic research, over his Epstein ties.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
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In December, Summers was dealt a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated to economic research, over his Epstein ties.—
Collin Binkley,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Neil Sedaka, the veteran pop singer-songwriter who penned some of the most enduring hits of the 1960s and early 1970s, has died.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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The report marks the first year Berkshire’s annual letter to shareholders wasn’t penned by Buffett, 95, whose folksy financial wisdom was a must-read for many investors.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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Following talks in the Indian capital, the two countries’ prime ministers inked a deal deepening rare-earths cooperation, and pledged to double bilateral trade by the end of the decade.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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The future of pickleball – and pickleball noise – at Whitefish Bay's Klode Park now has some clarity after the village board inked a new compromise on March 2, following months of discussion.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and death sentence in 1990 and over the next three decades Duckett engaged in unsuccessful postconviction litigation in both state and federal courts, Uthmeier wrote.—
Jim Turner,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2026
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Friedmann wrote as a guest columnist at the Tennessean, pushing for criminal-justice reform.—
James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
Verb
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To disassociate Braunau from Hitler’s legacy, the town government in 1989 placed a granite block from the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry before the building, inscribed with a memorial to the victims of fascism.—
Cary Lowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
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It's always inscribed with cultural values and ideas.—
GMA Team,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Lettered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettered. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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