typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

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

When Mr Taylor joined the BBC newsroom in Belfast he was the only reporter, alongside a news editor and a typist.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The typist twists her cigarette into an ashtray, a bright red smear of lipstick on its butt.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr