as in crafts
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 handcrafts
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
Verb
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcrafts
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Attractions include kitschy traditions such as a butter-sculpting demonstration, in which a master carver crafts a bust of the winner of the annual Princess Kay of the Milky Way pageant, and the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Across all of these places, visitors can see how traditional regional crafts fused with imports from other parts of the world to create a unique style of clothing and art that still persists into the present.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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Beka’s long, swingy ponytail and high energy are part of a marketing push by the British accessories brand, which is based in London and manufactures its bags in India.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
9 Sep. 2025
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At the heart of his vision is Area Printing, a proprietary 3D metal printing technology that is already reshaping how and where the world manufactures critical parts.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Miami-Dade schools are funded on a per student basis, and fewer overall children enrolled means millions of dollars less to maintain school facilities and fewer students to fill out specialty programs like arts and magnet schools.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Raskin had come to Apple with a master's in computer science from Penn State University, six years as an assistant professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and his own consulting company.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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One of my kids once presented a bar graph showing that Taco Tuesday produces 40% more dirty dishes than any other night.—
Dr. Sue Varma,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Pitt cast is led by Noah Wyle, who also executive produces and writes.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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Our preferences mold reality almost just as much as our reality molds them.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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His Victor is the product of a coddling mother (Mia Goth), who dies young and leaves him emotionally adrift, and a domineering father (Charles Dance), who molds him into a brilliant but heedless inventor.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
20 Aug. 2025
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Holland constructs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic portrait that blends real episodes with Kafka’s fiction and his strange afterlife as both cultural prophet and commercial brand.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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To facilitate such a mix, Alameddine constructs The True True Story of Raja the Gullible like an accordion, bracketing it with two short chapters set in 2023 and using the space between them to take his narrator back and forth in time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Our work not only shapes their future but also sets precedents that move the industry forward.—
WWD Staff,
Footwear News,
8 Sep. 2025
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Brooks then cuts the sections into smaller pieces with a cutting tool and shapes the pieces into gnocchi using a gnocchi board.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Every step toward understanding strengthens confidence, sparks creativity, and builds resilience.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The new launch also builds on Deepal’s global expansion strategy, which includes entering over 100 markets across Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Handcrafts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcrafts. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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