typist
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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
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
I met no rebuffs, only gentleness when they informed me they could not use my services as typist, bookkeeper, etc.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
He could never really remember the names of his clerks and typists.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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