shorthand
Example Sentences
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Shorthand help: Baryshnikov as in Mikhail, the transcendent Russian dancer.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018
Is your title, “Are We Not Men?,” a reference to H. G. Wells’s “The Island of Dr. Moreau”? Shorthand for the perils of genetic manipulation?
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2016
Shorthand is a method of quickly writing down information.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2016
Shorthand for both embarrassing dad and Russian falling for America’s charms.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2013
It was said that no one had ever handled a ship by night half so well as Davos Shorthand.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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