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
“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
For years, as a two-finger typist, he exuberantly turned out one major article after another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
She worked the swing shift at Chase Manhattan Bank as a typist, leaving home at three P.M. and returning around two A.M.,
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Between 1900 and 1930, female typists and stenographers increased more than 10-fold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 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
In the few public and business offices that I had visited in Umtata and Fort Hare, the typists had always been white and male.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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