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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
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Donald Trump, so ignorant of the past and so careless about the future, is a present-tense kind of candidate.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Was an ancient reptile, for all intents and purposes a 15-million-year-old dinosaur, actually roaming this expanse of creosote scrub, subsisting on beavertail cactus flesh, going about her day ignorant of the weather alerts, the headlines, the untold human tragedies?Outside Online, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
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The second group comprises uneducated individuals who engage in daily labor, working on both their own land and the land of others.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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If investors remain uneducated about the importance of self-custody, then any increase in demand will be met with an increase in the supply of paper bitcoin (also known as IOUs).Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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According to a study by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, 76% of women in Nigeria, 70% in Ghana and 57% in South Africa are financially illiterate.Odiri Oginni, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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In other words, nearly all of Singapore’s secondary school students have sufficient skills for the world of work, while almost three-quarters of South Africa’s youth are functionally illiterate.Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
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Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2021
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One unknowledgeable employee can cost Target $1,000 in a single, unrealized sale (that would be one iPhone 12 Pro).Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
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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
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In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
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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
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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
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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 21 Nov. 2024.
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