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- noun Plural form of
shorthand .
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Examples
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Continuing the comparisons to SF, Ruddick shorthands prehistoric fiction to "pf" (lower-case, no doubt, because it's easier to type when you're texting your friends about these hot ideas) and traces it to Darwin and contemporary discoveries in 1859, the same year that the first pf story was written by Pierre Botard.
Cave Man Stories 2009
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They are useful shorthands that help us to make sense of our world.
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What strange and impenetrable shorthands have you and your partner devised to communicate with one another?
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What strange and impenetrable shorthands have you and your partner devised to communicate with one another?
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Just as in other cognitive shorthands, we make these judgments quickly and unconsciously - and as a result, Oosterhof and Todorov point out, we can severely and immediately misjudge people.
Boing Boing 2008
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Meet The Press basically misinformed its viewers about this whole dumb Harvard recruitment thing (and, I'm sorry, the way you inform a person about this is to know what happened, cold, and take the time to specifically say what happened and not take any shorthands or shortcuts -- like Tapper did on THIS WEEK), and injected this idea that someone who opposes "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is somehow "radical."
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Uhm ... you'll notice that nobody shorthands it, "the 't' word," don't you?
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But less common have been warning shorthands designed positively to identify an unpleasantness or something to avoid.
In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon 2010
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The film begins with Mandela's 1990 release from prison after 30 years, then shorthands his subsequent election in 1994 as the country's first post-apartheid president.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Invictus an Unexpected Mandela Tale 2009
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Most shorthands other than Pitman and Gregg seem lost.
A Brief History of Shorthand - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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