as in handwriting
writing done by hand
my computer was down for most of the afternoon, so I wrote out my report in longhand
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Recent Examples of longhand
But this house is flooded with spontaneous snort-laughs; warm, butter-yellow linen curtains flung open on hopeful August mornings; stacks of homemade CDs with Arthur’s eager, all-caps longhand marching down their tiny spines.
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Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
DeMille wrote all of his manuscripts in longhand, and 17 of his books have been bestsellers.
—CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024
And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
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Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
DeMille wrote all of his manuscripts in longhand, and 17 of his books have been bestsellers.
—CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024
And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longhand
Noun
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Underpinning the experience is NOTE OS, which integrates recording, transcription, handwriting, text editing, and AI tools into a single workspace.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Oct. 2025
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Simon managed to keep scribbling on his yellow legal pad but his handwriting, illegible on a good day, quickly deteriorated into nothing more than chicken scratch.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After his mother’s death, he was sent to study Urdu and Islamic calligraphy at his grandfather’s madrassa in Sidhpur, Gujarat.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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On the sidelines of the runway shows were launch events including a late-night dinner at Carbone that eyewear retailer Eyewa hosted to launch its collaboration with eL Seed, a French Tunisian calligraphy artist and muralist.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Eventually the manuscript fell into the hands of a younger editor named Susan Bolotin.—
Cameron Crowe,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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There seems to be a single answer to every predicament in which a writer might find herself; reached an impasse in your manuscript?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Longhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longhand. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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