dictation
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The report said concerns about O'Brien's practice were known for many years before 2016, including triage delays, record-keeping failures, storage of patients notes at home, delayed dictation, non-standard prescribing and other clinical and administrative concerns.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Along the same lines, dictation software has made a massive leap this year.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
Tech workers are walking around talking to AI, pairing dictation apps with coding tools to turn rambling prompts into usable text in seconds—a process that can be both efficient and obnoxious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Gusto co-founder Edward Kim has encouraged employees at the human-resources company to experiment with dictation technology, telling them the office of the future will sound “more like a sales floor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
"No. My dad got me this tiny dictation thingy last year. It's like a notepad. I can record stuff and then play it back a couple times till it's memorized. My memory's gotten pretty good."
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Mr. Santaki came up with the idea of large groups of people taking part in dictations back in 2013.
From NewsForKids.net ● Jun. 8, 2023
French spelling is notoriously tricky and dictations have inspired dread in generations of pupils from Dunkerque to Perpignan.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
Stripped from the final report, for instance, was a reference to how several department leaders who attended Garcetti’s weekly “cabinet” meetings told researchers that the meetings “often felt more like dictations rather than discussions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
Junior and senior staff members told investigators they were asked to perform book tasks during their work day, including transcribing dictations, printing and delivering documents, and attending meetings with agents and publishers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
We should never give dictations from a book, but from memory, having prepared the lesson beforehand, and should remember that every exercise we give should "incite and develop self-activity."
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Vocabulary lists containing dictation
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Essential Word Roots: Dic and Dict
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