typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

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

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

“I remember my days as a waiter, cleaner, typist, even my time on the unemployment line,” Ms. Streep said in a statement.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He could not be seen or touched or spoken to, and the room where they had spent so many hours had been rented to a girl who worked as a typist.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers