longhand

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Selleck spent four years writing the book longhand on yellow legal pads, quoting from George Will and Raymond Chandler along the way.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2024

Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Escoffery says: "I don't write much longhand, but I write a lot in my head and that's what I did during those pauses. There were 50 or so drafts written."

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

One hundred full verses exactly copied out in longhand, because it is the final one that reveals your crime.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver