as in craft
an occupation requiring skillful use of the hands
we learned about traditional handcrafts like barrel-making and leather-working at the colonial history museum
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Recent Examples of handcraft
Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The luxury boot brand uses real leather and handcrafts every pair of boots.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
And with few exceptions, statement necklaces went up against brooches as the night’s key trend in high jewelry, the one-of-a-kind stunners that represent the ne plus ultra in a jewelry house’s ability to create exquisite handcraft highlighting rare diamonds and gemstones.
—Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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But both brands have turned the founders’ passion for handcraft into a driver of growth and staying power.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The luxury boot brand uses real leather and handcrafts every pair of boots.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
And with few exceptions, statement necklaces went up against brooches as the night’s key trend in high jewelry, the one-of-a-kind stunners that represent the ne plus ultra in a jewelry house’s ability to create exquisite handcraft highlighting rare diamonds and gemstones.
—Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcraft
Noun
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Space agency officials’ blood pressure was further elevated as experts closely watched the performance of the craft’s heat shield, which astronauts rely on to slow them down and keep temperatures livable.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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When his friend David Rodriguez opened Union Beer Store in Little Havana in 2017, Castro became its marketing manager, and started replaying old matches and pay-per-view shows on repeat at the craft-beer bar.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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The shipping disruption also largely stopped the export of nitrogen fertilizers manufactured in the Persian Gulf and limited access to key fertilizer ingredients.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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There was no longer any mechanism to manufacture trust and stimulate voluntary citizen idea generation and problem solving, no space any more for spontaneous working informality for business leaders, educators, politicians, public officials, wealthy scions of old families, clergy, etc.—
Stephen B. Young,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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What does all this have to do, pray, with a woman pouring milk from a jug, or reading a letter, or patiently making lace—the kind of activity, that is, pursued in Vermeer’s art?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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This year's competition featured 62 pieces of art created by students attending 11 different high schools and homeschools in the district.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Apr. 2026
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The bowl-back, thanks to its shape, produces a greater number of high partial harmonics that give it a distinctive, delicate tone preferred by most players of classical music.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Dolby audience repeatedly cheered as Jackson, Smith and Ladd shared backstage stories about the series, one of numerous TV hits developed and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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For a state like Illinois — a global hub for manufacturing and agriculture — these federal trade wars act as a direct anchor on our economy.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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The draft As part of an NBA settlement over the Heat not being made fully aware of the gambling investigation into Terry Rozier ahead of the Heat’s January 2024 trade for the guard, the Heat from the Hornets will be receiving Golden State’s second-round pick in June.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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There is romance, a lot of golf lore and history, familial woes and joys, and a world fashioned with wit and written with style.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Their numbers are retired by the organization, and both still live in the Buffalo area, where their gridiron legacies were fashioned, excited for the next chapter in Bills football.—
Sam Brock,
NBC news,
8 Apr. 2026
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Neighbors in Hollywood's North Lake neighborhood lost their fight to prevent a new apartment building from being constructed, after the City Commission approved the four-story, 22-unit building at North 16th Avenue and Shenandoah Street.—
Ted Scouten,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The company constructed its Hollywood lot on 26 acres in 1926, located in the same spot where its 65-acre campus stands today.—
Hadley Hitson,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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With a dedicated ad campaign fronted by Clint 419, the founder of steetwear brand Corteiz, and Italian actor Alessandro Borghi, the collection is comprised of about 18 looks spanning outerwear, overshirts, utility vests, jeans and carpenter denim pants.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Noma’s dining room, by contrast, is meticulously carpentered together, from the peaked ceiling to the bare floor, out of sanded oak and Douglas fir.—
PETE WELLS,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2018
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“Handcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcraft. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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