typist

Example Sentences

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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

But she found a job as a typist at Radio Tokyo, which enlisted POWs in its propaganda division and recruited her in late 1943 as a disc jockey.

From Los Angeles Times

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

At 15, she joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a typist, but was soon taken on as a reporter.

From BBC

She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

From BBC