longhand
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The high-school dropout read urban crime fiction, then wrote his own stories longhand in notebooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
But starting in the late 1990s, Streisand began writing down memories — in longhand, because she couldn’t type.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
She started making notes - writing longhand, in pencil - in 1999.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2023
Back East, Malcolm X carefully read and then signed the publication contract, and he withdrew from his wallet a piece of paper filled with his sprawling longhand.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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