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were well read
adverb
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
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Neither brother finished high school, but they were well read, self-reliant and enterprising.
Although my parents, sisters and brothers were well read and knew about music, there was no precedent for anyone becoming obsessed by any art or becoming a writer.
Both were well read in his home country.
The Bettencourters were well read in various directions; that's what their bookshelves said about them, anyway.
Later his weekly columns for Newsweek magazine (1966 84) were well read and increasingly influential among political and business people.
At the time that Traylor made such art, few art professionals were well read in the literature of Carl Jung's universal archetypes, a theoretical account of the continuities of image and form found among the global art and artifacts that Jung thought to be evidence of a neurological basis for cultural consciousness and identity.
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Neil: She's well read.
He was well read.
The answer is — well, read the piece.
And she is well read.
He's well read and well traveled.
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