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
Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2025
Each jetpack is made to order, handcrafted and painted in the U.K.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
The connection among folk art, handcrafts, and modernism was made by a number of curators and collectors at the time.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
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Noun
With mass production now at the forefront of furniture manufacturing—unlike earlier times when most furniture was handcrafted from solid wood—materials and construction methods have changed significantly.
—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2025
Each jetpack is made to order, handcrafted and painted in the U.K.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
Verb
This highlights the future of our handcraft, emphasizing its significance in an evolving digital landscape and celebrating the labor of love inherent in the Filipino brand of craftsmanship.
—Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
The connection among folk art, handcrafts, and modernism was made by a number of curators and collectors at the time.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcraft
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Opening July 6, Fragonard’s latest museum in Arles is the story of two dynasties united by friendship, a love for heirloom crafts and a knack for collecting.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
28 June 2025
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Getting to the knockout phase will take guile as much as craft, something the Dutch boast in abundance.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
Verb
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Choose vitamins manufactured by reputable retailers with certification stamps indicating they are independently tested.—
Lana Barhum,
Verywell Health,
25 June 2025
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But companies don’t need to turn over anything that would be considered a trade secret or intellectual property and the bill doesn’t apply to products that are no longer being manufactured.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
24 June 2025
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Biographer Robin Givhan talks about how Virgil Abloh, the dynamic, game-changing subject of her latest work, broke barriers, changed paradigms, and reshaped the worlds of fashion and art, with a special nod to the role of Black music and themes of freedom and joy.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 July 2025
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The agency is targeting professionals at the intersection of arts and technology for recruitment, CIA officers told The Times, and continues to cooperate with entertainment giants to inspire the next generation of creative spies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2025
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Shildt also knows that the biggest issue creating the team’s biggest issue is that on more nights than not, the top four hitters in the lineup have not been able to produce at the level the team needs them to.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 June 2025
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America keeps producing more effectively and efficiently: This is progress, growth and prosperity.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The Nabataeans were an incredibly skilled trading tribe in the spice trade.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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But using a trade exception, which allows a team to acquire a player in a trade even if their salary would otherwise put the team over the salary cap or the team is already over the salary cap, hard caps teams at the first apron.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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Unlike Clooney’s column dress, Diana’s look featured a sweetheart neckline, which was complimented by an extravagant pearl choker fashioned with an oval sapphire brooch once belonging to Queen Mary.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
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Hotel Art Thief gets a lot of mileage out of sketches fashioned after choose-your-own-adventure video games, and this entry is a good illustration of why.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
26 June 2025
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As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
27 June 2025
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The 430-piece set constructs two cherry blossom branches that can be displayed individually or combined with other sets for a larger bloom.—
Chaunie Brusie,
Parents,
27 June 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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The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.—
JESSE GREEN,
New York Times,
8 June 2017
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“Handcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcraft. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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