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cursive

[kur-siv] / ˈkɜr sɪv /






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The new typeface really does fit the moment, a time when anything in full cursive is kind of washed and outdated, and soon, no one will be able to read it anyway.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Who else sees “Instagzam”? Instagram unveiled its first brand refresh in a decade, swapping its classic cursive wordmark for a hybrid script that is drawing mixed reactions online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

She took a picture of the grimy hotel room where she stayed, capturing the swirling cursive on the sign for the dialysis center across the street in the background.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

The neon sign above the gate was impossible for me to read, because if there’s anything worse for my dyslexia than regular English, it’s red cursive neon English.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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 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

Ephraemi than in some others, but is used more or less by all, and is found after εξ, or ουχ, and a few like words, even in the most recent cursives.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

So that in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries both uncials and cursives must have issued mainly and virtually from the same body of transcribers.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon




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