word processor
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Applications like the electronic spreadsheet and the word processor turned the PC from a novelty into an indispensable business engine, helping to birth the modern software industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
There is no word processor app on the tablets.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2024
In this complex, the prime editor works like a "word processor," accurately replacing genomic information.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
Older books contain text that doesn't sit comfortably with modern rules, and we don't want your word processor deciding what Chaucer really wrote!
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim