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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

And I like to handwrite stuff, especially for that kind of thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

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

It worked well, allowing me to type up notes far faster than I could ever handwrite them.

From The Verge ● Jun. 4, 2022

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

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

This began with the first alphabets and handwriting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Filled with curiosity, the 36-year-old charity worker examined it - noting "really neat" handwriting for a child - and posted on her local Facebook community group on Thursday morning to track down the author.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words “JANE EYRE”—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

That’s how some refer to blockbooks, which were briefly an alternative to handwritten and typographically printed books in the 15th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He showed Sarah a photo of handwritten notes he had signed promising not to talk about violent incidents and told her his wife controlled his social-media accounts and communications, the memo alleges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

But a handwritten annotation said that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In July 2025, an anonymous handwritten letter was posted to police in Harlow, weeks after a BBC podcast was broadcast examining the case.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Post offices and handwritten letters are next,” Mateo says.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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 college, I hung paper seahorses from the ceiling and handwrote poems which I taped below the window by my bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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

The Queen, who championed the anniversary project to refresh the library, handwrote an introduction to the Modern-Day Miniature Library project.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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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