lettered

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By 1956, hospital births were becoming more common, and midwifery textbooks were recommending that a "wrist name-tape" or "string of lettered china beads" should be attached directly to the newborn.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

In high school, she lettered in three sports.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

He lettered three years as a punter and kicker in high school, and came to WSU as a preferred walk-on.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023

In 1943, his second full year there, he lettered in football, basketball, baseball and track.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

He had had an unpaid internship at a small architecture firm in Cambridge, where he’d run errands at Charrette for the designers, been sent to photograph nearby sites, lettered a few drawings.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri