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handwrite

[hand-rahyt] / ˈhændˌraɪt /


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If my daughter had children and refused to let me see them, I’d handwrite a letter to each grandchild every birthday and/or holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

At the center of the Venn diagram of people who love technology and love to handwrite everything, there’s ReMarkable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

“As a general rule, reading and writing go hand in hand, and the ability to actually handwrite is key in the development of young learners.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

In addition to requiring students in her intro courses to handwrite their code, the paper exams will count for a higher percentage of the grade this fall, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

In high school I had been able to handwrite ten- and twenty-page papers in little more than an hour—and I never revised what I wrote.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

"The handwriting is the same, but I can't say more," Mutso said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

He said Athena never had her husband sign anything and that she said the signatures didn’t match his handwriting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

But the pantry door has pencil marks on it, one for every kid every year, with the dates in my handwriting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The show is arranged in eight parts and begins with a large white wall at the entrance with the title of the show scrawled in RM’s handwriting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

On it was a message written by Mr. Pinkerton just before I’d started down Shady Oak Lane, but it looked enough like Mr. Maroney’s handwriting that even I was deceived at first glance.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The handwritten letter was then passed to Meghan in January 2019, with the duchess saying last week that it had "made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

A Filofax from the 1988 Faith tour with Siobhan's handwritten notes and annotations had a guide price of up to £600 and a current bid of £1,750.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Eventually he uses a computer to type the scripts, picking handwritten lines that flow best, but writing from scratch on a computer feels “too disposable.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

But a handwritten annotation said that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

On the back, handwritten in black ink on white, it reads:

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

For Christmas in 1995, he handwrote that poem and gave it to his father and two grandfathers along with a pair of black socks each.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

In 1997, The Times described how McArthur refused to use a typewriter or computer and painstakingly handwrote his Bible studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

Research, for example, has found that students’ brains were more active when they handwrote information rather than typing it on a keyboard and when using a pen and paper versus a stylus and a tablet.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2025

That morning he handwrote Javier Bardem a letter to congratulate him on his performance.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

Underneath, he handwrote: “If done under your assurance that it is not traceable.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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