stenography
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the act or process of writing in shorthand by hand or machine
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matter written in shorthand
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And she spends at least 18 hours a week practicing on her stenography machine—a specialized keyboard she likens to playing chords, which allows her to transcribe exceptionally fast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
But exploring women at middle-age and older, as she tends to do, is also a canny defense against those who might reduce a young woman’s work to mere autobiographical stenography.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
“The statistics are fans’ shorthand stenography for our stories,” Thorn said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
These plans “relegate his political writers to stenography journalism,” Kathy Kiely, Bloomberg News’s former politics director, told the Associated Press on Sunday.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
At school, he takes typing and stenography classes.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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