as in educated
having or displaying advanced knowledge or education
the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows
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Recent Examples of literate
This novel of a post-literate, dystopian world is set in a village on the shores of Lake Superior.
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
The long-term implication is a more resilient, mentally literate workforce, but the high underlying prevalence (37 percent with moderate/severe depression) means sustained institutional investment is crucial.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Financially literate people tend to build more wealth, live happier lives and even have better health outcomes.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
This was not a revolt driven by the literate few.
—Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
The long-term implication is a more resilient, mentally literate workforce, but the high underlying prevalence (37 percent with moderate/severe depression) means sustained institutional investment is crucial.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Financially literate people tend to build more wealth, live happier lives and even have better health outcomes.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
This was not a revolt driven by the literate few.
—Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literate
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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
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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
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Utilizing a far more civilized system, the host at the stand in front of the restaurant gives diners an oddly accurate time to return.—
Joel Stein,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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Here was a foolish and incompetent tribune of the nation’s racist vulgarians, opposed by the prosperous and the well educated, the civilized and the tolerant.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Literate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literate. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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