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
There is even research evidence that the act of writing in longhand has benefits over typing.
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Rebecca Fraser-Thill, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Robbins wrote his books in longhand on legal pads, producing only a couple of pages a day and with nothing plotted in advance.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
But this house is flooded with spontaneous snort-laughs; warm, butter-yellow linen curtains flung open on hopeful August mornings; stacks of homemade CDs with Arthur’s eager, all-caps longhand marching down their tiny spines.
—Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
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Rebecca Fraser-Thill, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Robbins wrote his books in longhand on legal pads, producing only a couple of pages a day and with nothing plotted in advance.
—Bill Trott, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
But this house is flooded with spontaneous snort-laughs; warm, butter-yellow linen curtains flung open on hopeful August mornings; stacks of homemade CDs with Arthur’s eager, all-caps longhand marching down their tiny spines.
—Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longhand
Noun
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The study also did not account for the participants' use of medications, which could potentially impact both handwriting and brain function.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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One in Indiana told me that his violations included a mix-up involving an Amish customer’s name; one in South Carolina told me his violations included filling out forms on behalf of elderly customers with shaky handwriting.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Kyoto calligraphy is often paired with tea ceremonies.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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As preschoolers dance, paint and play inside a Sunset Park daycare center, seniors sing traditional Chinese opera, exercise and practice calligraphy just one block away.—
Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
22 May 2026
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These two separate collections were originally part of the same group of manuscripts, made by da Vinci between the mid-1470s and shortly before his death in 1519.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 June 2026
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Available for a one-time $49 payment (MSRP $540), the platform combines multiple AI models—including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama—into a single workflow designed to generate full-length nonfiction manuscripts faster and more coherently.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
7 June 2026
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“Longhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longhand. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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