How to Use stenography in a Sentence

stenography

noun
  • Secretaries must be able to do stenography.
  • Miller’s defense of stenography seems absurd in hindsight, but there is a grain of truth in it.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Anyone could learn to use the machine in two weeks or less, compared to months or years to master stenography.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • My father finished high school; my mother learned stenography at a vocational school and got her first job at sixteen.
    — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Everything about it, the dramaturgy, the stenography, the facial expressions, all of it.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • Indeed, in general, stenography, lazy both-sidesism, and access journalism cheaper to produce than tougher stuff.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • No network or media outlet is under any obligation to serve as the White House stenography office.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This, of course, is stenography, not journalism—and an utter abdication of journalism’s watchdog role.
    — Dan Gillmor, Slate Magazine, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Details like this keep the entire movie from coming off as simple stenography—a trap that many biopics fall into and that’s sometimes a problem for Just Mercy.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Given that so much of Eastwood’s approach to biopics amounts to careful stenography, this material comes off as nonsensical and upsets the film’s tonal balance.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The finishing touches were applied after the world had shut down, making the album feel less like a warning about a dark but still avoidable future and more like musical stenography documenting our current predicament.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Woodward went with it, producing periodically weighty doorstops filled with establishment stenography.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2013
  • Many science journalists have come to accept a frankly unacceptable level of mediocrity in our own practice, including playing an odd blame game whenever mistakes are made, and tolerating stenography.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2012
  • Especially these days, when just pure aggregation of stories, or just stenography of a story, is not necessarily is gonna win new audiences, but having sort of nuanced understanding or an opinion on something.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 18 Apr. 2018
  • His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and his parents were high school teachers — his father taught history, his mother typing and stenography — and liberal Democrats.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022

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