longhand
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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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