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Recent Examples of stenography
His mother, Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin, taught typing and stenography.
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New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
Many science journalists have come to accept a frankly unacceptable level of mediocrity in our own practice, including playing an odd blame game whenever mistakes are made, and tolerating stenography.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012
His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his parents were high school teachers — his father taught history, his mother typing and stenography — and liberal Democrats.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
In her 20s, June Frendt learned typing and stenography at Stevens-Henager Business College.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2021
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New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
Many science journalists have come to accept a frankly unacceptable level of mediocrity in our own practice, including playing an odd blame game whenever mistakes are made, and tolerating stenography.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012
His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his parents were high school teachers — his father taught history, his mother typing and stenography — and liberal Democrats.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
In her 20s, June Frendt learned typing and stenography at Stevens-Henager Business College.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stenography
Noun
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Soon The Handmaid’s Tale—and especially its instantly iconic costuming—became cultural shorthand for protesting against real-world patriarchy.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
28 May 2025
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The approval of the amendment's ballot title and popular name, which are used as shorthand to describe the measure on the ballot, is a required step before the League of Women Voters can begin collecting signatures.—
Neal Earley,
Arkansas Online,
22 May 2025
Noun
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The steno keyboard is specially designed to press multiple keys at once to capture entire syllables or words in a single stroke.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
18 May 2025
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Live captioning is an entirely different animal, and those workers use steno machines, like those used in courtrooms, to create hyperfast captions.—
Kirsten Chuba,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 June 2023
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“Stenography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stenography. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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