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 • Nov. 23, 2025

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

"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

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