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lettering

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verb

present participle of letter

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Recent Examples of lettering
Noun
Red lettering splashes across the departures board, indicating a calamitous level of cancellations. Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Theron's catsuit was emblazoned with the luxury fashion house's original marque, Givenchy Paris 1952, in white lettering across the chest. Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025 The nails were decorated with ornate, black script lettering that went across both of the rapper's hands, which spelled out Stefon Diggs' name. Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 20 June 2025 The accolades poured in for his monumental book, printed on large-format pages with a dark-blue cover and gold lettering on the spine. Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for lettering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettering
Noun
  • Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Sultanahmet Square was the first of its kind to display both Turkish and Islamic works of art together and is well worth a visit, especially if you’re fascinated by calligraphy, tilework, and carpets.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Visitors will get the opportunity to dabble in traditional Japanese arts such as calligraphy and try on garb like kimonos and yukata.
    John Tuohy, IndyStar, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Not only that, but Katie Gaudreau’s veil featured custom messages in her brothers’ handwriting.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • In order to date the scrolls, the model analyzed each one's handwriting style.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The process of creating the book was hampered by a series of mishaps, including the traumatizing loss of manuscripts, Kennedy said.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • One typed his manuscripts; another became a novelist.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • Peter Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and author Dave Eggers.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Dani Di Placido has been writing about film, television, and internet culture for Forbes for 8 years.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cursive penmanship has been kicked to the curb in the past two decades by technology that favors keyboards over paper and pen.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • Mathurin, competitive as ever, wants to be the best at everything, even penmanship.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The actor shared photos of themselves holding binders with their scripts over their faces in a recording studio.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • India was a collage of states, each the size of a large European country, with languages, scripts and literatures of its own.
    Aatish Taseer, Time, 15 July 2025

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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettering. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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