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

She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

For years, as a two-finger typist, he exuberantly turned out one major article after another.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“I’m the twenty-fourth speediest typist in the class.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu