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longhand

[lawng-hand, long-] / ˈlɔŋˌhænd, ˈlɒŋ- /
NOUN
hand
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But starting in the late 1990s, Streisand began writing down memories — in longhand, because she couldn’t type.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

She started making notes - writing longhand, in pencil - in 1999.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023

She started writing what would become “The Other Black Girl” in longhand, on Knopf stationery — something that helps her be less critical, she said — during quiet moments at her cubicle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

I’d done it the first time, grudgingly, not telling him how much I hated typing, how I did all but the final drafts of my stories in longhand.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler




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