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[kee-bawrd] / ˈkiˌbɔrd /


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"Our keyboard player spotted the smoke first and shouted at me to run," Athipat later recalled, speaking to reporters.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Late in the album, “Spirit Showing” features a twinkly keyboard that brings to mind the dusty chime of the celesta, as if the song takes place in a dim space illuminated by candlelight.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Ibrahim, born Adolph Johannes Brand in 1934, grew up in Cape Town and began composing at the piano at the age of seven by picking out tunes on the keyboard.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

Elsewhere, the recent single American Girls gained a long, trippy intro, with Styles messing around on an old analogue keyboard, tweaking low pass filters and playing squiggly synth noises.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

George's fingers flew over the keyboard as she zoomed the photo to 150 percent, then 200 percent.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

The duo studied dusty LPs from Mexico and Colombia and employed a panoply of vintage keyboards to re-create the ghostly sounds of a Latin America that ceased to exist decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

The sultry “Hard Times” combines a slow cha-cha-cha rhythm with strings, horns, electric keyboards and a reverb-heavy bass.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

The breakthrough could help reduce the spread of disease from frequently touched items like smartphones, keyboards, and hospital equipment.

From Science Daily Apr. 22, 2026

The devices that use standard computer keyboards wouldn’t work.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

And by scrambled, I mean they waited ten months to replace the touchscreen with the keyboarded Q10.

From Forbes Nov. 7, 2013

Besides, I use the very tedious process of keyboarded voice modulation when I speak Utmano.

From Nature Feb. 1, 2012

Rather, the argument extolled the benefits of writing by hand versus emphasizing keyboarding too early or too much:

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2024

The program teaches eight different courses, including basic keyboarding skills, Microsoft Office, iPhone with VoiceOver/Siri, and refreshable braille displays.

From Seattle Times Apr. 22, 2022

In the same way people acquire and retain information better when handwriting rather than keyboarding, manually going through papers and positioning them in a physical space reinforces the information.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 2021

Those of us who took typing rather than keyboarding have had to unlearn a habit deeply entrenched.

From Fox News Apr. 30, 2020

I had taken keyboarding in school the year before, and had gotten much better at it.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold




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