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"Illiteracy" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The percentage of illiteracy in that country is 36%.
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century.
In a society that uses thousands of logograms, there is much hidden illiteracy that people don't talk much about in public.
The government has made joint efforts to eradicate illiteracy.
We must confront the scandal of illiteracy in America, seen most clearly in high-poverty schools, where nearly 70 percent of fourth graders are unable to read at a basic level.
Contractions seems to be a slippery slope towards illiteracy.
Women in many parts of the world are still trying to overcome societal obstacles, including child marriage, illiteracy, domestic violence and lack of access to family planning.
Some non-English speaking cultures associate English illiteracy with a lack of education.
Illiteracy is the inability to read and write.
Unchallenged faith in books is worse than illiteracy.
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Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
While some local governments ignore the illiteracy problem, others are actively campaigning to teach people to read and write. In the villages of Xiping County in Henan Province in central China, students stop visitors and ask them to read a few characters on a blackboard. Any visitor who cannot read the characters is not allowed to enter the village. This means that illiterates are effectively grounded, and in frustration many have joined the special reading classes offered in each village. Now in Xiping County, according to local officials, only 1.7 percent of those between the ages of 20 and 40 are illiterate.
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