shorthand
Example Sentences
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Shorthand help: Baryshnikov as in Mikhail, the transcendent Russian dancer.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018
Is your title, “Are We Not Men?,” a reference to H. G. Wells’s “The Island of Dr. Moreau”? Shorthand for the perils of genetic manipulation?
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2016
Shorthand term coined to describe a question posed by Tam Dalyell, once Labour MP for West Lothian.
From BBC • May 6, 2015
Shorthand for both embarrassing dad and Russian falling for America’s charms.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2013
He didn’t seem to; he went on writing down his strange curlicue notes about Thomas Hardy in Phineas Shorthand.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing shorthand
When You Reach Me
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The Boy Who Dared
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