as in handwriting
writing done by hand my computer was down for most of the afternoon, so I wrote out my report in longhand

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Recent Examples of longhand And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand. Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024 Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024 Like his eerie adult stories of revenge and comeuppance, his children’s books required many drafts, scribbled longhand on yellow legal pads. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022 Unplug for the afternoon and write some good, old-fashioned longhand letters. Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for longhand
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Noun
  • The class broke down into groups, each focusing on a different aspect of White’s story: For instance, one group attempted a handwriting analysis, while another searched for records of White during his enslavement in Maryland.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • In other words, the historical record seems as illegible as my own prehistoric handwriting.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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  • 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
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  • Objects on view include manuscripts of Austen’s works, nearly a third of her remaining letters, her gold and turquoise ring (once owned by pop singer Kelly Clarkson) and modern artistic interpretations of her work.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • Scholars thought the roughly 1,000 manuscripts, written mostly on parchment and papyrus, ranged from the third century BC to the second century AD.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 June 2025

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