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Discover LudwigThe phrase "am read" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "I am read by many people for my insights on technology."
Alternatives: "I am understood" or "I am interpreted."
Dictionary
am read
verb
To think, believe; to consider (that).
Exact(4)
He told The New York Times in a 2001 interview in Paris: "Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write.
"It is a matter of supreme indifference to me if I am read in England," he told his publisher in the 1960s, on the rebound from bad reviews.
"For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me,' " Ms. Angelou said.
"It is always a matter of extreme indifference to me if I am read in England," Styron once stated in a letter to Tom Maschler, his editor at Jonathan Cape, when critical reaction seemed to him unduly harsh.
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It would be read.
The first was: "Read books".
It can be read here.
It should be read everywhere.
"All I did was read.
Maria Edgeworth may still be read.
He's read my work.
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