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an occupation requiring skillful use of the hands
we learned about traditional handcrafts like barrel-making and leather-working at the colonial history museum
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Recent Examples of handcraft
Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
The brand is also launching a modern heirloom collection in December, which highlights the handcraft of Donegal tweed with pieces made in the town of Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
Chris Humphrey, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
There are over 2,000 felt creations in the range, handcrafted by Lucy for Diptyque, each one unique.
—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Highlights include a Hoffman Challenge Special Exhibit, a vendor mall, a sew and craft booth and a handcrafts boutique.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
The brand is also launching a modern heirloom collection in December, which highlights the handcraft of Donegal tweed with pieces made in the town of Donegal, on the west coast of Ireland.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
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Zo Project, a social enterprise supporting families that handcraft traditional Do paper, currently sells notebooks and posters in a small store behind an old temple.
—Chris Humphrey, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
There are over 2,000 felt creations in the range, handcrafted by Lucy for Diptyque, each one unique.
—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcraft
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Their mutual appreciation for craft was instilled by their grandmother, Dagmar, a tailor, who taught them the importance of looking at the details.Talia Abbas, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2024
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For wine collectors, investment purpose is often rooted in passion for the craft and the community rather than in financial motives alone.Darryl Lyons, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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One example is where the companies will manufacture slightly different technology so that the chips comply with export controls.John Werner, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The body, battery, and other components will be manufactured in China and assembled in the US.New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
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Delicious in Dungeon is packed with a delicious blend of comedy, drama, and pure emotion, all packaged up in a gorgeous art style that's quite unlike most anime on the market right now.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Imagen 3: Google's new text-to-image model that creates images with refined detail, lighting, and composition in various art styles.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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Even appliances, produce, and cookbooks—though certainly at home in this space—might be giving your kitchen a busy appearance.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
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By harnessing water, not burning oil or gas, to produce electricity, this new energy matrix was supposed to help mitigate the effects of global climate change — not make Ecuador a victim of it.José María León Cabrera, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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The soaring price of free-agent pitching might prompt clubs to make aggressive trade offers for younger, cheaper starters.Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
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In a recent lawsuit, a mother alleged negligence and deceptive trade practices involving Character.Joel Khalili, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.David Williams, National Review, 26 Dec. 2024
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Alice fashioned herself in opposition to her mother.Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Further, not all the patients took the highest dose of the drug, leading to questions about how the study was constructed.Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
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That legislation authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to fund and construct the Central Arizona Project system to transport Arizona’s share of Colorado River water.Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024
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Noma’s dining room, by contrast, is meticulously carpentered together, from the peaked ceiling to the bare floor, out of sanded oak and Douglas fir.PETE WELLS, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
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The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.JESSE GREEN, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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“Handcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcraft. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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