spell check

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

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."

From BBC

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

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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.

From New York Times