How to Use stenography in a Sentence

stenography

noun

• Secretaries must be able to do stenography.
• Miller’s defense of stenography seems absurd in hindsight, but there is a grain of truth in it.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2016
• Everything about it, the dramaturgy, the stenography, the facial expressions, all of it.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
• Details like this keep the entire movie from coming off as simple stenography—a trap that many biopics fall into and that’s sometimes a problem for Just Mercy.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2020
• Given that so much of Eastwood’s approach to biopics amounts to careful stenography, this material comes off as nonsensical and upsets the film’s tonal balance.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
• Indeed, in general, stenography, lazy both-sidesism, and access journalism cheaper to produce than tougher stuff.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• Inspired by anatomical studies of the human ear and fascinated with the art of stenography, Scott had stumbled across a radical new idea: Instead of a human writing down words, a machine could write sound waves.
  — Steven Johnson, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2014
• No policy decisions are engraved in stone as if through holy stenography, and they’re definitely not beyond democratic consent on the basis of a 63-year-old law.
  — WSJ, 21 Dec. 2016
• This, of course, is stenography, not journalism—and an utter abdication of journalism’s watchdog role.
  — Dan Gillmor, Slate Magazine, 22 Jan. 2017
• The first pitfall to avoid is stenography: uncritically relaying what the president said without giving readers the relevant context.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 10 Mar. 2020
• Especially these days, when just pure aggregation of stories, or just stenography of a story, is not necessarily is gonna win new audiences, but having sort of nuanced understanding or an opinion on something.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 18 Apr. 2018
• Woodward went with it, producing periodically weighty doorstops filled with establishment stenography.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2013

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