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
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
What does Medigap cover? Buying Medigap can be daunting, since the policies come in an alphabet soup of lettered plan choices (A, B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M and N).
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Loading your audio article A mysterious track defect somewhere along a major New York City subway line is wearing out the wheels on subway cars, causing a shortage of trains on the lettered lines, the Daily News has learned.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Verb
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
What does Medigap cover? Buying Medigap can be daunting, since the policies come in an alphabet soup of lettered plan choices (A, B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M and N).
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Loading your audio article A mysterious track defect somewhere along a major New York City subway line is wearing out the wheels on subway cars, causing a shortage of trains on the lettered lines, the Daily News has learned.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettered
Adjective
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Also spotted hanging out with the aforementioned Romy Mars at the launch of Sofia Coppola’s new Chanel Haute Couture publication, could this be a sign that the band of TikTok-literate offspring is recruiting for its newest members?—
Olivia Allen,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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Within 50 years, Hawai’i’s 97 percent, almost 98 percent completely literate — the highest literacy rate of any country around the world.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Consumers were advised to check the lot code printed on the bottom strip of the pouch's back and to return the affected product to the retailer for a full refund.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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According to The New York Times, The Grapes of Wrath was the bestselling book of 1939, and some 430,000 copies of the novel had been printed by February 1940 (which must have put quite a strain on Viking’s printers at the time).—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Study Has Some Limitations People in the study tended to be healthier and more educated, Guo says, which could potentially skew the findings.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Preseason polls are, at best, educated guesses, and there are perennial calls to abolish them altogether.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Is this just marketing, or does scholarly research really support such claims?—
Brian W. Stone,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Joshi says teachers also tend to be a vocal crowd that isn’t shy about sharing their scholarly opinions.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Phoebe Eclair-Powell (The Road Trip) has penned the drama, her first series commission for television.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
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James Reginato, a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and the former features director for W magazine, penned the copy, and Anna Wintour contributed the foreword.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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This represents an amendment to their shareholders’ agreement, inked at the time of Kering’s acquisition of a stake in Valentino in 2023.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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The tech giant also inked a deal earlier this summer with Disney to integrate its DSP with Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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Day-Lewis wrote the script alongside his son.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Jess, a producer on the show and also a knitter, wrote a paragraphs-long comment addressing people’s criticism of the vid.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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The rifle that authorities believe was used in the assassination contained ammunition inscribed with antifascist messaging, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Unfired cases were also inscribed with hyper-online references, including a series of arrows that, as the gaming publication Polygon pointed out, match the input required to drop a bomb in a popular game called Helldivers 2.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Lettered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettered. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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