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Adjective
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And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.—
Brian X. Chen,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023 -
That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite.—
Tom Simonite,
Wired,
18 Oct. 2020
Adjective
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An illiterate student just graduated from Hartford High.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
24 Mar. 2025
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That was from a legal loophole with literacy and grandfather clauses involving illiterate white men.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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It was launched in the 1970s by the federal government as an alternative to public housing projects, which were criticized for segregating poor families in neighborhoods with low-quality schools and other substandard services.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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However, human clinical studies testing specific therapies targeting inflammation and their impact on metabolic disease have had promising but substandard results.—
Danielle Weiss,
Verywell Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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