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lettering

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verb

present participle of letter

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Recent Examples of lettering
Noun
Every detail feels purposeful, from the strong contrasts to the lettering choices. Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025 The awning is made from a circular test tarp, while the signage reused lettering and wayfinders from Freitag’s factory in Oerlikon. Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 11 Dec. 2025 Those little flourishes can make the lettering harder to read, says Kristen Shinohara, who leads the Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025 Font options include bubble lettering, bold, serif, signature, and retro—all of which have a different look and feel to them. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lettering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettering
Noun
  • There, the tea ceremony was both a contemplative act and an occasion to display Chinese calligraphy, paintings and ceramics.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Hand lettering, a more relaxed form of calligraphy, is a simple skill to make your handwritten scrawl appear prettier on paper.
    Katelyn Chef, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of printing at one central site and shipping to multiple locations, USA TODAY was transmitted via satellite to multiple print sites across the country.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Soon Dempsey turned his talent into a moneymaking endeavor, printing up business cards to get work.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2026
  • This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Google is building a data center on Australia’s remote Christmas Island off the coast of Indonesia, after inking a cloud-computing deal with Australia’s Department of Defense earlier this year, Reuters reported.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • On the video side, Amazon this year has been busy signing up DSP partners, inking recent pacts with Netflix, Disney and Roku for programmatic ad sales.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The same principle that protects a musician’s royalties or an author’s manuscript should protect the digital assets of the creative class.
    Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The organization manages an extensive collection of historic manuscripts, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, and more, all accessible to the public.
    Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Born to a long line of musicians and entertainers (their great-grandparents were vaudevillians), Gunnar and Matt started writing music at age 6, shooting to fame in their own right after launching hard rock duo Nelson in the early 1980s.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Billy Bob Thornton and Ariana Greenblatt are set to star in Somedays, a feature film that Brian Klugman is writing and directing.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • These handwritten letters, which lend a quaint quality to the storytelling, are a delightful throwback to an era when penmanship was celebrated.
    Shruti Mutalik, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The boy had an army of private tutors, for Latin, Italian, French, Yiddish, Hebrew, English, ancient philosophy, history, geography, drawing, penmanship, and music.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The partnership aims to leverage Panorama’s distribution network and production expertise with Pauly’s star power and script selection abilities.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The script detects the operating system and browser.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettering. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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