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Noun
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Their parents sign their names with trembling hands that carry the invisible weight of illiteracy.—
Joyeeta Banerjee,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2026 -
The Shopper was created in 1970 by Reuben Harpole, Mildred Harpole and Belden Paulson, not just to combat illiteracy but to provide supporting funds to the Harambee Community School – an institution at 110 W. Burleigh St. that was grappling with disinvestment at the time.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Don’t let the fact that Italy’s unexpected heroics allowed Team USA to back into a quarterfinal spot erase the embarrassment of an all-too-telling admission of ignorance by DeRosa.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
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Austen’s ideal romantic relationships are never founded on ignorance or lies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Compare that to punk rock, which used dumbness as a tactic.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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There’s a heartwarming idiocy to their pursuit, yet what festers underneath is their inability to process grief consciously and the fear that those who deem their existence meaningless might be right.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Gunther and Tig are two billionaire failsons who have wasted countless opportunities and cash chasing the stupidest ideas and who get rewarded over and over again for their idiocy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Functional illiteracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/functional%20illiteracy. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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