typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

"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