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spell check

noun as in spell checker

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George looked up the word "suspect" on the computer's spell-check.

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I can confirm it takes even Arnold Schwarzenegger a full two seconds to spell-check his own name, before he looks up and smiles: "Yes."

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With the benefit of spell-check, we can lose our own spelling proficiency.

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We take editing tools such as spell-check and autocomplete and predictive texting for granted.

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And his conversational prose style, which can impart the treacherous delusion that you, reader, might also become a famous novelist if you simply typed up 100 percent of your internal monologue and hit spell-check.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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