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manuscripts

noun

plural of manuscript

as in handwritings

writing done by hand beautiful, careful manuscript on the school's diplomas

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Recent Examples of manuscripts Publishing houses have tried to crack down on AI usage by authors, inserting strict clauses into book deals and leaning on Pangram to vet manuscripts. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 27 Oct. 2026 The manuscripts at the Habott Library are among the oldest in West Africa. — Kang-Chun Cheng, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026 The flagship journal has stopped accepting manuscripts and grant reviews, fundraisers, and educational activities have ceased. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026 At this point, police have found more than 600,000 images, 70,000 videos and more than 10,000 pages of writings, manuscripts and drawings on various digital devices at the house on Chew Avenue. — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The Proffers carried dozens of these manuscripts back to Michigan. — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026 Next year, Madrid’s prestigious Museo Reina Sofía will open an outpost in the city, with a collection of 138,000 paintings, sculptures and manuscripts. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026 There are manuscripts, emails, projects, follow-ups and the occasional administrative mystery that arrives disguised as a perfectly ordinary Tuesday. — Morissa Schwartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 On Tuesday afternoon OpenAI dropped more than 700 manuscripts reporting proofs, solutions and progress on 372 open problems across theoretical research. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

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