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Recent Examples of stenography
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.
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Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
His mother, Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin, taught typing and stenography.
—New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
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
His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his parents were high school teachers — his father taught history, his mother typing and stenography — and liberal Democrats.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
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Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
His mother, Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin, taught typing and stenography.
—New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
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
His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his parents were high school teachers — his father taught history, his mother typing and stenography — and liberal Democrats.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenography
Noun
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Although most developers would like to avoid the term Metroidvania — which is now shorthand for any 2D platformer that features exploring a pseudo-gated open world with tons of backtracking required — there’s really no way to avoid it.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2025
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Even a color can be a shorthand to demonstrate something.—
Evan Nicole Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 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 2 Jul. 2025.
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