cursive
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Its fonts, a mix of cursive and midcentury typeface, were inspired by his business card.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Some of the detectives’ notes had been written in cursive, which she helped translate for her younger teammates.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Her legal team argued that the way Cathay Home has styled the word "Swift" in its branding closely resembled the singer's trademarked cursive signature.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Her left leg is a canvas of tributes: Dior, her 3-year-old son, is inked behind her knee in flowing cursive.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2025
Her name, Rosaleen Daise, was written twenty-five times at least down the page in large, careful cursive, like the first paper you turn in when school starts.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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While Loi Che Chan does employ Chinese, she revives extravagantly illegible cursives as old as the eighth century.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019
They worked obsessively, perfecting their lettering, their cursives, and their lines.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2015
It is the text of all the uncials but two, of all the cursives but six or seven; and this alone ought to be decisive.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward
Those familiar words, vouched for by 16 uncials and all the cursives, are quite above suspicion.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
Accordingly the three uncials, which of those that give the Apocalypse date nearest to the period of corruption, adopt υ, followed by nine cursives, the Harkleian Syriac, and the Armenian versions.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward
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