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lettering

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verb

present participle of letter

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Recent Examples of lettering
Noun
Making a case California was one of the first states to use upper and lowercase lettering. Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 May 2025 That inspired shirts with embroideries, patches, and all sorts of detail in early collections taken from those authentic black shirts with gold lettering. Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 To my great dismay, the lettering underneath the gas knobs (and even the manufacturing logo) has started to flake off. Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 31 May 2025 The new license plate is designed with an all-black background and white lettering. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lettering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettering
Noun
  • Those images are not on view here, only his elegant tripartite scene of women in the latest fashions, practicing the four arts of stringed instruments, strategy games, calligraphy, and painting.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • Check-in started with a calligraphy envelope reading my name and a vintage skeleton key to the Sarah Dutro suite.
    Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • In the wake of that decision, the Louisiana legislature, after losing before multiple courts, saw the handwriting on the wall and drew a new map that provided for a second majority-Black district.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 June 2025
  • Back in the game, the blue players enter a room with a starry ceiling and brick walls covered in childish handwriting and drawings.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • She’s spent countless hours translating manuscripts and old books and building her family’s genealogy tree.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2025
  • Grove City College—which has stressed Austrian School economics in its undergraduate programs—has completed a major project of digitizing a 20,000-page archive of letters, manuscripts, and notes by the great economist.
    Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 30 June 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
  • Mathurin, competitive as ever, wants to be the best at everything, even penmanship.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Beautiful penmanship, without necessarily writing skills to match.
    Bob Mondello, NPR, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • What struck me about the script, there was very little information given to you.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 24 June 2025
  • Three script development picks, from 478 submissions, are Black Star Angel from Armenia’s Christine Haroutounian, the Philippines’ Heaven Help Us! from Eve Baswell and New Life from China’s Yingtong Li.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 June 2025

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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettering. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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