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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longhand
Noun
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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
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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
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To the tune of upbeat music, the clip showed Meghan writing a special message in her signature calligraphy, before footage flashed of her carrying plates with food in her hands, spending time in her garden and standing on a bridge with Princess Lilibet. Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage?—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
28 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
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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
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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
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“Longhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longhand. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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