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Jones uses the letters WUI as shorthand for Wildland Urban Interface, which Los Angeles has by the thousands of acres, including in the Palisades and the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The rhetorical question was meant to help believers think about their actions toward others, a kind of ethical shorthand.
—Jason Derose, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
In a career that spanned more than four decades, the director—who was also a musician, a visual artist, and an actor—established such a signature aesthetic that Lynchian became a shorthand adjective for things that were odd, disquieting, and, above all, dreamlike.
—Vogue, 16 Jan. 2025
Startling in their familiarity, these scenes have become a shorthand for an ongoing nightmare.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The rhetorical question was meant to help believers think about their actions toward others, a kind of ethical shorthand.
—Jason Derose, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
In a career that spanned more than four decades, the director—who was also a musician, a visual artist, and an actor—established such a signature aesthetic that Lynchian became a shorthand adjective for things that were odd, disquieting, and, above all, dreamlike.
—Vogue, 16 Jan. 2025
Startling in their familiarity, these scenes have become a shorthand for an ongoing nightmare.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Shorthand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorthand. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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