typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

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 • Nov. 21, 2025

Referring to the late British scientist who had motor neurone disease, he added: "Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal."

From BBC • Jan. 29, 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

A close- cropped corporal checks von Rumpel’s identification and points him not to a cell but to a high-ceilinged third-story office where a typist sits behind a desk.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr