as in stenography
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Recent Examples of shorthand
Public lands are our shorthand for freedom and exhilaration.
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Tracy Stone-Manning, Denver Post, 7 May 2025
Rooted in the grisaille tradition, Sherald strips her figures of pigmentation, not to obscure their identity, but to resist the flattening visual shorthand that so often surrounds Black life.
—Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Communist Spoils The Pittman is shorthand for American.
—Hannah Reyes Morales, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The early work represents an art-historical intervention, for which the term Conceptualism was, and remains, convenient shorthand: a suspension of the familiar identity of an artwork.
—Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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Tracy Stone-Manning, Denver Post, 7 May 2025
Rooted in the grisaille tradition, Sherald strips her figures of pigmentation, not to obscure their identity, but to resist the flattening visual shorthand that so often surrounds Black life.
—Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Communist Spoils The Pittman is shorthand for American.
—Hannah Reyes Morales, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The early work represents an art-historical intervention, for which the term Conceptualism was, and remains, convenient shorthand: a suspension of the familiar identity of an artwork.
—Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shorthand
Noun
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Over 25 months, the cost of professional services/fees for the Carolina Blue matter topped $500,000, according to documents obtained by The Athletic. Invoices in the Carolina Blue matter listed an additional $120,000 for court reporting, which is generally a reference to stenography services.—
Brendan Marks,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The researchers are now beginning experiments to test whether haptic gloves can teach braille typing and stenography—evidence that the technology could impart not just patterns but also language.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2014
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Live captioning is an entirely different animal, and those workers use steno machines, like those used in courtrooms, to create hyperfast captions.—
Kirsten Chuba,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 June 2023
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So, to keep himself organized, Horton started writing everything down in a steno pad notebook.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
17 July 2022
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“Shorthand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorthand. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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