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
Noun
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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The Gregory House comes alive with artisans, botanists, and historians demonstrating different crafts, as well as discussing the rare flora and fauna at the park.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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The Creative Minds of Tomorrow program received 799 entries this year, with 124 participants selected across 13 filmmaking crafts, including three new disciplines.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Sony’s imaging and sensing solutions segment develops and manufactures advanced semiconductor products for a wide range of applications, from smartphones to automotive and industrial systems.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
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China’s Meskernel manufactures the laser rangefinder.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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November brings a full calendar of festivals celebrating the coastal city, including the Foo Foo Festival, a 12-day arts and culture event with activities from Pensacola Beach to the historic streets of downtown and out to Perdido Key.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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Originally held in 2019 as the Mission District Arts Festival, Studio ACE (Arts, Community, Education), which provides arts education and activities to Oceanside schools and the community, refocused the festival as an annual celebration of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, of Payómkawichum.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Nov. 2025
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The director pieces the film together in elliptical fashion.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
3 Nov. 2025
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Still, launching a web browser feels out of sync with the way OpenAI fashions itself as a revolutionary AI lab, not a traditional tech company.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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That fashions itself as a relevant program nationally.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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Ross O’Connor produces alongside Noah Lang and Blackhurst through Witchcraft Motion Picture Company, with Set Point Entertainment, Grim Discoveries, Gentile Entertainment Group, Monarque Entertainment and Mama Bear Studios attached.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Foundational to this style is the traditional use of hand modeling in clay, creating life-size models of the shapes and surfaces of the vehicles Mazda produces.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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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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The department plans and constructs new freeways, additional lanes and other improvements in the Phoenix area as part of the Regional Transportation Plan for the Maricopa County region.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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And Dacus, with slow-burning lyricism and diary-fragment songwriting, constructs entire emotional geographies connected by faith, heartbreak, memory, and grief.—
Gerrick Kennedy,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Handcrafts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcrafts. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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