as in craft
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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as in to manufacture
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Recent Examples of handcraft
Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
Bentley and cinematographer Adolpho Veloso also plunge audiences into the tactile particulars and handcraft of logging, Robert sawing away with numb determination while he’s forced once again to be far away from his wife and child.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Mekaylah Yowpp-Hernacki, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
And allegedly, some dupes are manufactured in the same plants that produce the real thing, though Hermès uses only its own factories to handcraft its Birkin bags.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Rodrigues handcrafts all types of chapeaus, including fedoras and cowboy hats.
—Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
Bentley and cinematographer Adolpho Veloso also plunge audiences into the tactile particulars and handcraft of logging, Robert sawing away with numb determination while he’s forced once again to be far away from his wife and child.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
Her pieces, which often feature warped key rings and ball chains, are all handcrafted locally in her studio.
—Mekaylah Yowpp-Hernacki, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
And allegedly, some dupes are manufactured in the same plants that produce the real thing, though Hermès uses only its own factories to handcraft its Birkin bags.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcraft
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But this community resource offers so much more: story and craft times, free internet, computer stations, genealogical records, music collections—the list goes on.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2025
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To stage Jordan’s dual role, for which both brothers are often together in the same frame, Coogler, relying on elaborate technology, displays a modest yet astounding craft.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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Vietnam, a rising manufacturing powerhouse, has seen a surge in Chinese investments in recent years as manufactures move supply chains out of China to take advantage of lower labor costs and hedge against US levies.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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These stories are manufactured to avoid face-to-face accountability Photo Manipulation And Identity Theft — the profile picture is usually stolen.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The title drop, when a line of dialogue references the film’s title, is a delicate art with a distinct cult following.—
Donald Liebenson,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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The exhibit displays over two centuries of sculptures that show how art has produced and reproduced racial attitudes and ideologies.—
John P. Jackson,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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And the more rapid the cycle, the more dust is produced.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The work relied on the seismometer network’s observations of more than 200 earthquakes, each of which produced multiple types of seismic waves.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2025
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But exactly what are the opportunities and what are the risks now that President Donald Trump is trying to reorder the global economy with an unprecedented trade war?—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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What strikes Vecchione about this growing legal consensus is that the business giants who stand to lose the most under a trade war have yet to put up a fight.—
Cristian Farias,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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The lobby concierge and check-in desks are welcoming, slightly demure spaces that make way for the real heartbeat of the hotel: the impressive, triple-story space anchored by a spiral staircase fashioned from green Ming marble.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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This gut-wrenching loss came two nights after the Cougars fashioned a wild comeback of their own, from 14 down against Duke.—
Eddie Pells,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2025
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This lineup was constructed to make the other question marks on the roster irrelevant.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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There was no natural gas service to the home, officials said, adding that it had recently been constructed.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Apr. 2025
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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 25 Apr. 2025.
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