shorthand
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Fragrance and stench became shorthand for clean and unclean, respectable and disreputable, “us” and “them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
One casting agency said visible differences were often used as a shorthand for villainy, but that these casting briefs could be successfully challenged.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
We often shorthand alliances as friendships, but they’re usually built less on comity and more on mutual necessity.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Plastic soul,” then, becomes a conceptual shorthand for The Beatles’ chameleonic ability to absorb a genre’s core qualities and refashion it into something distinctly their own.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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