as in handwriting
writing done by hand
beautiful, careful manuscript on the school's diplomas
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Recent Examples of manuscript
Digitally unfolding a Merlin manuscript Virtual opening of CUL’s Vanneck Merlin fragment.
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ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
That’s because the manuscript disappeared when his wife’s suitcase was stolen from a train in Paris in 1922, and now is adrift in the underworld of lost history.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
Last month, the Irish Traditional Music Archive — which acquired Moore’s manuscripts and recordings — announced plans for a major exhibition on his career to open in January.
—Bob Mehr, New York Times, 15 May 2025
On view through June 29, the show includes items like original manuscripts, rare first editions and an 1843 painting of Dickens that went missing for more than a century.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2025
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ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
That’s because the manuscript disappeared when his wife’s suitcase was stolen from a train in Paris in 1922, and now is adrift in the underworld of lost history.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
Last month, the Irish Traditional Music Archive — which acquired Moore’s manuscripts and recordings — announced plans for a major exhibition on his career to open in January.
—Bob Mehr, New York Times, 15 May 2025
On view through June 29, the show includes items like original manuscripts, rare first editions and an 1843 painting of Dickens that went missing for more than a century.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manuscript
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Forty-two students helped to transfer the original messages onto large river rocks, replicating not only their words but the original handwriting and drawings.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
28 May 2025
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In addition, a double-sided leaf notebook that Lincoln used as a boy in school, which has the earliest surviving examples of his handwriting, sold for $521,200.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
23 May 2025
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The company is also expected to announce a new bidirectional Arabic and English keyboard, a virtual calligraphy pen for Apple Pencil users and a new system for syncing hotel Wi-Fi login details across devices.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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File photo of four-kanji character, taken on Dec. 22, 2020, as high school students pose following a calligraphy performance in Osaka.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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