cursive
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Her conviction showed in the careful way she packed away every piece, writing my name in her distinctive cursive script across the top of each box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
We also want to get an auto pen so we can write handwritten cards for guests because it’s kind of hard to write perfect handwriting in different languages and in cursive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
The words are in blue ink, in a lovely cursive hand.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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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
For ἡμᾶς we find only B, 33, 68, 95, 96, 105, 137, and rather wonder than otherwise that the itacism is not met with in more cursives than six.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
Ephraemi than in some others, but is used more or less by all, and is found after εξ, or ουχ, and a few like words, even in the most recent cursives.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
The future is found possibly in C, certainly in 61, 221, and the mass of cursives, in e and other versions, in Chrysostom, and in one form of Theophylact's commentary.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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