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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.”
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.
Mourn 64!" - shorthand for the sensitive date.
On the right, many people have as a lazy shorthand to mean anything they classify as “bad cultural change.”
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).
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/
They have a shorthand for their bodies as well.