cursive
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I’ve seen it on many products, in many different presentations — pink-glitter bubble letters on a sticker, loopy black cursive on a tote bag, industrial embroidery on a hat.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its fonts, a mix of cursive and midcentury typeface, were inspired by his business card.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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
But I tried again once she handed the pen back to me, and this time the cursive flowed out the way I had been taught.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Some critics will of course insist that, on the contrary, both words are spurious accretions to the text of the cursives; and they must say so, if they will.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
But when a leap is made from this position to another sweeping assertion that all cursives are alike, it is necessary to put a stop to so illicit a process.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
This is the reading of all the uncials but eight, of all the cursives but fifteen.
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
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