as in handwriting
writing done by hand
my computer was down for most of the afternoon, so I wrote out my report in longhand
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Recent Examples of longhand
There is even research evidence that the act of writing in longhand has benefits over typing.
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Rebecca Fraser-Thill,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Robbins wrote his books in longhand on legal pads, producing only a couple of pages a day and with nothing plotted in advance.
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Bill Trott,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
But this house is flooded with spontaneous snort-laughs; warm, butter-yellow linen curtains flung open on hopeful August mornings; stacks of homemade CDs with Arthur’s eager, all-caps longhand marching down their tiny spines.
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Carolyn Figel,
Hazlitt,
27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
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Cal Newport,
The New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2024
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Rebecca Fraser-Thill,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Robbins wrote his books in longhand on legal pads, producing only a couple of pages a day and with nothing plotted in advance.
—
Bill Trott,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
But this house is flooded with spontaneous snort-laughs; warm, butter-yellow linen curtains flung open on hopeful August mornings; stacks of homemade CDs with Arthur’s eager, all-caps longhand marching down their tiny spines.
—
Carolyn Figel,
Hazlitt,
27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—
Cal Newport,
The New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longhand
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Between the many ceasefires, extensions and delays, the handwriting is on the wall.
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The study also did not account for the participants' use of medications, which could potentially impact both handwriting and brain function.
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Kyoto calligraphy is often paired with tea ceremonies.
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As preschoolers dance, paint and play inside a Sunset Park daycare center, seniors sing traditional Chinese opera, exercise and practice calligraphy just one block away.
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Even when words had a short /u/ vowel, spellings like wulf, wud and wunder would have been too confusing in the era of manuscript writing, what with its rows of upright quill strokes.
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The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
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