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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: shorthand

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And when referring to someone who didn’t die from a suicide attempt, acceptable shorthand ways to say that include “nonfatal suicide attempt” or simply “suicide attempt.”

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/10/10/when-talking-about-suicide-avoid-using-these-words/

Archival work largely depends on a reader’s ability to read hard-to-read texts in shorthand and/or cursive.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/2022/9/21/23363871/cursive-writing-practice-genz-never-learned-cursive

“As the higher courts have made clear, it refers to something that is neither of those things and in fact is not a particularly helpful shorthand for the necessity in some cases to examine the factual matrix that underpins a child’s wishes and feelings.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/oct/21/woman-raped-by-ex-partner-left-traumatised-by-english-family-courts

Instead of using the artless shorthand of “3-D,” however, Nabokov describes “yard-high blue letters, each of which (including a square dot) was shaded laterally with black paint: a dishonest attempt to climb into the next dimension.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/books/vladimir-nabokov-best-books.html

It was really nice having this cultural shorthand and not having to worry about, like, if I say something negative about my Korean American upbringing, is that going to lead to a pathologization of my culture?

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/we-have-reached-peak-therapy-tv

Let these not become merely rubbed-down shorthand for anonymous atrocity.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/manipur-sexual-violence-pm-modi-kathua-rape-case-8877159/

On the right, many people have as a lazy shorthand to mean anything they classify as “bad cultural change.”

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-2024-florida-authoritarian/673483/?utm_source=feed

Outreach to the so-called “Global South”, shorthand for some low- and middle-income countries including India, has been a focus at this year’s Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima.

Source: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/05/20/at-g7-japan-and/

“Supermoon” is a sexier shorthand for what astrologers call a perigean full moon, wherein the full moon appears brighter, bolder, and better because it’s at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/reap-reflect-revel-under-full-harvest-supermoon-in-aries/

The persuasion of Pitman shorthand (C8) lives on, Shirley Rider: “I learnt it at business college in 1965 and used it for decades,” says Pam Linnett of Twin Waters (Qld).

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/pencil-pushers-with-the-write-stuff-20230728-p5drym.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

The phrase's explosion began with the late November debut of an online "documentary" by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.

Source: https://www.startribune.com/died-suddenly-posts-twist-tragedies-to-push-vaccine-lies/600249098/

The shorthand to this season is you're getting some Star Wars, you're getting some Vampires, you get some spy stuff with some infiltration, and you're getting a lot of explosions that you get to look cool walking away from.

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/games/fortnite-launches-chapter-4-season-4-last-resort/