as in education
the understanding and information gained from being educated
he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence
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Recent Examples of literacy
This includes setting healthy social media and screen time boundaries, promoting digital literacy, emphasizing critical media education, and having open and honest conversations about idealized beauty standards and self-image.
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wendy Wisner, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
But after vetoes by successive Presidents, a literacy test wasn’t implemented until 1917, when Congress overrode Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
By inviting children to deliberate, argue, and choose winners, SIFF is essentially teaching media literacy as a creative discipline, cultivating audiences who interpret film critically, not passively.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
Institute of the Americas and Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental received $99,977 to foster water re-use literacy and policy collaboration across the border.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
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wendy Wisner, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
But after vetoes by successive Presidents, a literacy test wasn’t implemented until 1917, when Congress overrode Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
By inviting children to deliberate, argue, and choose winners, SIFF is essentially teaching media literacy as a creative discipline, cultivating audiences who interpret film critically, not passively.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
Institute of the Americas and Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental received $99,977 to foster water re-use literacy and policy collaboration across the border.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literacy
Noun
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But Jesmore said talking to his grandson about the design of the new world headquarters, which will be more open-concept for collaboration rather than individual offices, was an education.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Abigail Spanberger, our candidate, three pillars to her campaign, affordability, jobs, and education, which is about kids, but also about our workforce.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Libraries and archives hold so much knowledge within their sacred confines.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Seven Castain’s knowledge of ‘Seinfeld’ Castain was born in 2004, and her familiarity with a TV show is limited since Seinfeld signed off in ‘98.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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His learnings from working with the mass retailer have played into this ethos of designing great wardrobing for the luxury woman, which has played into the designer’s global expansion.—
Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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Using deep reinforcement learning The new system uses deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to guide a robot, much like human hand-eye coordination.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Irvin, 6-1 and 175 pounds, chose the Razorbacks over scholarship offers from Kansas State, Purdue, South Florida, Minnesota, UNLV and others in June.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Nov. 2025
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His journey began with a collegiate scholarship, followed by professional playing stints across America and Europe.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Literacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literacy. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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