as in handwriting
a type of writing in which all the letters in a word are connected to each other
He writes in cursive when he takes notes.
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Recent Examples of cursive
Cayli Yanagida, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2025
The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn’t fluent enough to decode the text.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Bryan West, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
It's written in a delicate, slanting cursive and spans the length of her inner forearm, starting just below her wrist and ending near her elbow.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noun
But adding cursive to the curriculum has been no easy feat.
—Cayli Yanagida, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2025
The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn’t fluent enough to decode the text.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
The 26-year-old channeled Swift's album artwork with pink and blue wispy clouds and pink cursive letters spelling out the tune's title.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
It's written in a delicate, slanting cursive and spans the length of her inner forearm, starting just below her wrist and ending near her elbow.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cursive
Noun
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Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy: Discover the timeless art of Arabic calligraphy through the artistic practice of handwriting based on Arabic alphabet.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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In the white space below the image, their names are marked down in pink ink with his sister’s handwriting.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bloomberg has gone so far as to report that Zaslav is in early, informal talks regarding potential successors.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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The expectation has always been that the president would behave in a certain way, abiding by a generations-long yet informal agreement about the role and discretion of the administrative state.—
Jay Cost,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The soft leather looks best when done up in a snake print, as far as we’re concerned, which will instantly grant your off-duty stylings more oomph.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie has earned nearly $8.7 million domestically and $2.2 million internationally for a worldwide domestic tally of $10.9 million to date against a $15 million production budget before prints and advertising costs, according to The Numbers.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This is distinct from the plaintiffs' alleged harm of unauthorized access.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Guards are to do room checks for unauthorized guests and to handle any issues, like trespassing complaints.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Many of these duties are automatic, such as confidentiality between professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers and accountant and their clients).—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Request an automatic extension while filing through IRS Free File. File Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return by mail, through an e-filing option or with a tax professional.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Women’s March was highly organized and concentrated, while the protests in June 2020 were largely spontaneous and spread out.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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Few inspire spontaneous ovations in public places, like the one U.S. Rep. John Larson received last month at Bradley airport.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This show should finally set the record straight: here is an American visionary whose obsessive paintings are at once stylized and crudely instinctive, achieving a kind of cryptic simplicity that might be called folk surrealism.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Another instinctive reaction to tariff announcements is shifting sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States.—
Jim DeLoach,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Clients who check their investments frequently tend to experience more anxiety and are more likely to make impulsive changes.—
Andrew Rosen,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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In Trump's impulsive first term, Waltz might've been fired.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Cursive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cursive. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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