letters
Britishnoun
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literary knowledge, ability, or learning
a man of letters
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literary culture in general
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an official title, degree, etc, indicated by an abbreviation
letters after one's name
Example Sentences
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Indonesia issued summons letters to Google and Meta over their failure to comply with a social media ban for under-16s that entered into force over the weekend, the communications minister said.
From Barron's
"I must have sent seven or eight letters. And they kept asking for the same details over and over again."
From BBC
“Most people just see physics as numbers and letters on paper. But I see how those formulas show limits, boundaries. Of movement, gravity. Knowing means working with it, instead of against it.”
From Literature
This manifests itself in many ways, as seen through the Moneyist letters over the years.
From MarketWatch
One early smart machine was the Mark I Perceptron, an “artificial brain,” invented in 1958 by the psychologist Frank Rosenblatt, that could learn to classify simple patterns, such as geometric shapes and handwritten letters.
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