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[tahyp] / taɪp /








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Herd explained that there is a desire to hold more water on this type of land, particularly in preparation for the dry summer months.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Chandler’s the type of actor who still appreciates being sent physical copies of scripts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

More than a billion people around the world are living with obesity, a condition that raises the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

A strong match came up for Oliver: a type of Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome, or TRPS.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

I type and delete five different messages before I settle on something simple.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

"Using data collected from different types of particle collisions at RHIC, our results suggest that the baryon number is not simply carried by individual quarks," Xu added.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Telegram channels -- sifting through intelligence data -- close the information gap, putting out daily forecasts on the probability of different types of attacks.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

AI may help provide suggestions for them about what types of tests to run, or what potential treatments could help, Hanna added.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The first - from the start of November - covers types of handguns, shotguns and rifles.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“This one’s funny,” Angel says when she types up the poem “Snowball” by Shel Silverstein.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

Whether the lawyers were laughing when they typed this is known only to them.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

There is the typed text of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech, "I Have a Dream," and a jersey worn by Roberto Clemente, the first Latino to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

The two women credit all the written and typed letters and what they shared through them for keeping them close.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

The court heard the accompanying paperwork had been typed using a typewriter on paper embossed with an antiques dealers' logo – and even a nine-pence stamp.

From BBC May 22, 2026

That was the real reason he suddenly needed to have that letter typed.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

A pamphlet from the Central District of California that touted “front-page Federal cases” hung in the window of a court reporting classroom, where students practiced typing 200 words per minute.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

My partner wants to turn off the light and go to sleep, but I'm still frantically typing on my phone.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

I have watched so much incompetent Knicks basketball—and spent so much time mocking this team—I almost can’t believe the words I am typing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

I step inside and hear the man of the house typing away in his study.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin




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