typist
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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
"It was because I was such a bad typist and was ruining so much of their expensive paper!" she joked.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
For years, as a two-finger typist, he exuberantly turned out one major article after another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Eileen did not appear to have writerly aspirations, though she did act as Orwell’s note taker, first reader, editor, typist, agent and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
The typist twists her cigarette into an ashtray, a bright red smear of lipstick on its butt.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Everyone working on the inquiry was offered support due to the traumatic nature of the evidence, from detectives to the typists tasked with transcribing interviews.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
In the few public and business offices that I had visited in Umtata and Fort Hare, the typists had always been white and male.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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