Literate [adjective]

Definition of Literate:

able to read and write

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Sentence/Example of Literate:

One study of climate change sceptics, for example, found that the most scientifically literate people in the group were most likely to strongly endorse climate scepticism.

The intention is to make the public and policymakers WUI literate and provide science and tools that could lead to the creation of cost-effective solutions, so we don’t keep repeating the same tragic, expensive mistakes.

Flaubert is in six volumes, four or five of which every literate man must at one time or another assault.

Lincoln, they knew, favored the extension of suffrage only to literate Negroes and to those who had served in the military forces.

The opinion was advanced that the evening of the day he landed his arrival was known in every literate home in New York.

I doubt if there is a single literate person in the world to-day who would apply the word “wicked” to Shelley.

There they competed on alternate forums with literate gardeners and stuttering horticultural amateurs.

It was inconceivable any literate person in the United States could be ignorant of my position.

They had a considerable share both in the religious and literate institution of the Northumbrians.

And again the convention cried out together, "We're not here to be scholarly, we're not here to be literate."