cursive
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Her conviction showed in the careful way she packed away every piece, writing my name in her distinctive cursive script across the top of each box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Some of the detectives’ notes had been written in cursive, which she helped translate for her younger teammates.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Her legal team argued that the way Cathay Home has styled the word "Swift" in its branding closely resembled the singer's trademarked cursive signature.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
“That’s part of the fun,” Van Hulsen says as she brings over a sterling silver ice cream scoop engraved with “There’s nothing wrong with me that ice cream can’t fix” in barely perceptible cursive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Behind me, the kitchen doors swung open, and my mom walked through, wearing her signature uniform: a bright-orange chef coat with Cari in fancy cursive on the upper left side.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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While Loi Che Chan does employ Chinese, she revives extravagantly illegible cursives as old as the eighth century.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019
They worked obsessively, perfecting their lettering, their cursives, and their lines.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2015
The truth rests with the fourteen remaining uncials and with the cursives.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
The scanty residuum of hostile evidence proves to be Origen and three Codexes,—of which two are cursives.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
Now, as for the cursives, with the memorable exception of Evann.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
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