longhand

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"I scribble and sketch, but shift quickly to the computer. I thought I'd write the whole manuscript longhand - by the third paragraph I gave up."

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024

But starting in the late 1990s, Streisand began writing down memories — in longhand, because she couldn’t type.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Some city ordinances weren’t even indexed, forcing Birch and Karabian to leaf through the longhand lawbooks page by page, wearing special archival gloves.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

From now on I’ll have to write out these reports in longhand.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes