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Recent Examples of innumerate
Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either.
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Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
To my innumerate mind, though, the odds of a Biden win are basically fifty-fifty.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
In those necks of the woods, people are too ignorant to vote in favor of helping their illiterate and innumerate children.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
They would be termed innumerate — unskilled at working with numbers.
—Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
To my innumerate mind, though, the odds of a Biden win are basically fifty-fifty.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
In those necks of the woods, people are too ignorant to vote in favor of helping their illiterate and innumerate children.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
They would be termed innumerate — unskilled at working with numbers.
—Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innumerate
Adjective
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The allegation might have risen above ignorant innuendo if Lyman had tried to show any evidence that the governor, the mayor or the port commissioner had anything to do with the container ship striking the bridge.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Steph Curry was ignorant of the NBA history at stake.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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People in Europe were almost entirely illiterate, while there was a high degree of literacy and numeracy in the Muslim world.—
David Conrads,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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Would Bashir relinquish the south to let it be governed by a former enemy in a cowboy hat, who presided over a territory with fewer than 100 miles of paved roads and a population that was 80% illiterate?—
Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The thought of appearing unprepared or unknowledgeable can be stressful, especially in a big team meeting or in conversation with more senior colleagues.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
4 Dec. 2024
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Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.—
Jessie Balmert,
The Enquirer,
6 Aug. 2021
Adjective
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And, of course, speedily deport those who misbehave. — George W. Price, Chicago Our benighted states The only renaming of place that is called for in this age of Donald Trump is the United States of America.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.—
Jody Rosen,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2023
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Blessed with a harsh, untutored, yet inimitably soulful voice, MacGowan forged a blend of traditional Irish folk music and punk rock that was later mimicked outright by bands the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, and left a clear influence on acts such as Gogol Bordello and Mumford and Sons.—
Andrew Barker,
Variety,
30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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Those afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often behave in a manner which the unlearned (or uncaring) will immediately label as criminal.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Sep. 2024
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Although the 1973 commission’s report ran to 2,200 pages, some big lessons from 1973 may have gone unlearned—lessons that Israel needed to understand then and still does now.—
Uri Kaufman,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2023
Adjective
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.—
Jennie Germann Molz,
Scientific American,
21 Oct. 2024
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2024
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“Innumerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innumerate. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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