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Recent Examples of stenography
His mother, Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin, taught typing and stenography.
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New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
During this seeming golden age, the leading news organizations adjusted their fundamental relationship to government, shifting from a kind of elevated stenography to the critical journalism that has become the norm.
—Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
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, 28 May 2014
Many science journalists have come to accept a frankly unacceptable level of mediocrity in our own practice, including playing an odd blame game whenever mistakes are made, and tolerating stenography.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012
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New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
During this seeming golden age, the leading news organizations adjusted their fundamental relationship to government, shifting from a kind of elevated stenography to the critical journalism that has become the norm.
—Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
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, 28 May 2014
Many science journalists have come to accept a frankly unacceptable level of mediocrity in our own practice, including playing an odd blame game whenever mistakes are made, and tolerating stenography.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenography
Noun
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The term was shorthand for spending too much time online and letting your brain turn to mush.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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The company has been building a $15 billion fab (which is industry shorthand for semiconductor-fabrication factory) and announced plans in June for a second plant.—
Darin Oswald,
Idaho Statesman,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The steno keyboard is specially designed to press multiple keys at once to capture entire syllables or words in a single stroke.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
18 May 2025
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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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“Stenography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenography. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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