Example Sentences

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Success, both literately and figuratively, is a matter of degrees.

From Slate • May 3, 2019

A lot of people are writing about it, some of them even literately, and that is generally a cheerful development.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2012

Spurred chiefly by the militant World-Telegram, 262,000 voters wrote McKee's name on their ballots literately; the votes of 73,000 more were not counted because of misspelling.

From Time Magazine Archive

It comes as a gift that the vehicle is literately written by Ernest Thompson and sensitively directed by Mark Rydell.

From Time Magazine Archive

The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether/or; and the literately preposterous script by Cyril Hume will probably strike most grownups as being just as plausible as any irrational number.

From Time Magazine Archive