cursive
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"The handwriting is nothing like her handwriting in the original letter, which is almost a childlike scrawl. The second one is an elegant, joined-up cursive."
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx of newer, sleeker businesses with scrawled cursive logos and $7 drinks.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
I’ve seen it on many products, in many different presentations — pink-glitter bubble letters on a sticker, loopy black cursive on a tote bag, industrial embroidery on a hat.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its fonts, a mix of cursive and midcentury typeface, were inspired by his business card.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
He made it out to read, in cursive and black ink: The angels taught the humans too much.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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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
Z and the Isaiah included in it, to the more recent cursives; although in some manuscripts they are much rarer than in others.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
As regards the cursives nearly the same must be said.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
The scanty residuum of hostile evidence proves to be Origen and three Codexes,—of which two are cursives.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
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