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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.
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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.
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James Freeman,
WSJ,
9 Oct. 2018
They would be termed innumerate — unskilled at working with numbers.
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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.
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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.
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Sandy Bauers,
Philly.com,
29 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innumerate
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Let’s hope that George Santayana’s warning to those ignorant of history about the past repeating itself makes an exception for our present Defense Department.
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And then there are amateur collectors like me, who might not know ironstone from porcelain, but whose last day on earth could be spent touching old objects in ignorant bliss.
Adjective
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The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.
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The hillbilly is portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and unsophisticated; they are often depicted as being unkempt in appearance, perhaps noticeably dirty or walking around barefoot.
Adjective
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While about 90% of the Black population in Southern states were illiterate in 1865, this percentage dropped to 70% by 1880.
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The residents of the adjacent villages were largely illiterate rice farmers, who worked their fields by day and illegally cut down trees by night.
Adjective
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But this time there would be no panel from the National Endowment of the Arts sifting through the applications, no oversight from cultural officials and benighted curators—the usual process.
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Repeal the benighted Jones Act, which raises energy and shipping costs.
Adjective
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
Adjective
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De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.
Adjective
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When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.
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Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
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