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stenography

[stuh-nog-ruh-fee] / stəˈnɒg rə fi /
NOUN
note-taking
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And she spends at least 18 hours a week practicing on her stenography machine—a specialized keyboard she likens to playing chords, which allows her to transcribe exceptionally fast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

But exploring women at middle-age and older, as she tends to do, is also a canny defense against those who might reduce a young woman’s work to mere autobiographical stenography.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2022

“The statistics are fans’ shorthand stenography for our stories,” Thorn said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2021

These plans “relegate his political writers to stenography journalism,” Kathy Kiely, Bloomberg News’s former politics director, told the Associated Press on Sunday.

From Washington Post Nov. 25, 2019

The sister, who had taken on a job as a salesgirl, in the evening studied stenography and French, so as perhaps later to obtain a better position.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka




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