as in handwritings
writing done by hand
beautiful, careful manuscript on the school's diplomas
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Recent Examples of manuscripts
The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2026
The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
23 June 2026
Monks preserved manuscripts there.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
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.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
7 June 2026
Investigators say Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva coordinated the operation while drawing on a long history of thefts involving rare books, manuscripts, and other cultural artifacts.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
Italy's culture ministry was trying to then find the missing manuscripts, and bought the copy from Kraus in 1972.
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Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
24 May 2026
Books were produced collaboratively; writers sent off handwritten manuscripts to printers, who transposed them onto a printing press before setting them to paper.
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Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
Nearby were manuscripts of nine symphonies that Mozart wrote within two years, in his late teens.
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Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2026
The vast project archive, which includes 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, fifty architectural models and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts, is a gift to the university made by the architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 June 2026
Monks preserved manuscripts there.
—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
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
Investigators say Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva coordinated the operation while drawing on a long history of thefts involving rare books, manuscripts, and other cultural artifacts.
—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
Italy's culture ministry was trying to then find the missing manuscripts, and bought the copy from Kraus in 1972.
—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
24 May 2026
Books were produced collaboratively; writers sent off handwritten manuscripts to printers, who transposed them onto a printing press before setting them to paper.
—
Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
Nearby were manuscripts of nine symphonies that Mozart wrote within two years, in his late teens.
—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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“Manuscripts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manuscripts. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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