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Recent Examples of lettering
Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Many fans predicted the cover art would be orange because of the colors used for the New Heights episode, but the cover is primarily mint green with some orange lettering.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
Plastic faded the blonde color of butter with age and the lettering smeared away, big thumbprint smearing a lilac hollow through the violet plastic of the power button.
—Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Swift asked Jason in the video, pulling out a mint green briefcase with her initials on them in orange lettering.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Posted in bold, bright lettering so it is not missed, Trina shared that even she was slightly taken aback by the booking.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Many fans predicted the cover art would be orange because of the colors used for the New Heights episode, but the cover is primarily mint green with some orange lettering.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
Plastic faded the blonde color of butter with age and the lettering smeared away, big thumbprint smearing a lilac hollow through the violet plastic of the power button.
—Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Swift asked Jason in the video, pulling out a mint green briefcase with her initials on them in orange lettering.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettering
Noun
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As sociologist Mustapha Hashim Kurfi writes, in Hausa communities of northern Nigeria, calligraphy is deeply valued both as part of Islamic scholarship and as gorgeous embellishment for everything from building walls to horse blankets.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Finally, people seem drawn to the minimalist aesthetics associated with chanoyu, which have echoes in other Japanese practices such as dry rock gardening and calligraphy.—
Rebecca Corbett,
The Conversation,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Of course, a nation’s central bank could also assist in the latter option with quantitive easing—essentially printing more money to reduce the value of debt.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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This is a departure from previous macOS versions, which made FileVault optional and gave you other, non-cloud options for backing up your recovery key (including printing it out or just writing it down).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The subsequent pages include a childlike drawing of a wedding and redacted photos of young children in bed, playing piano, and evidently posing for the camera, with captions in what appears to be Maxwell’s handwriting.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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Leavitt said that the White House would support having a professional handwriting expert review the signature.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This hasn’t become a big deal yet because all signs point to Durant inking some form of an extension in the coming weeks that will tie him to Houston for the foreseeable future.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Murray had a rather rough year in his first season after inking the new pact, appearing in just 11 contests that year while totaling 14 passing touchdowns and seven picks.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That had been turned down by 14 publishers and he was offered only a £3,000 advance for the manuscript.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages, where her paintings will appear in dialogue with rare medieval manuscripts.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Likewise, writing a vast treatise is bound to confound the AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Rackauckas allegedly told the detective to delay writing a report on Lunsford’s statement.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The company provided side-by-side comparisons of GPT-5’s penmanship versus GPT-4o for things like wedding toasts and poems.—
Alexandra Sternlicht,
Fortune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Cursive penmanship has been kicked to the curb in the past two decades by technology that favors keyboards over paper and pen.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
Noun
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But in 2025, that script is breaking down.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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And it was appreciated that Redford was concentrating on the script and the actors and directing with stylistic restraint and professional anonymity.—
Stephen Galloway,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettering. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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