spell check

Example Sentences

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And his conversational prose style, which can impart the treacherous delusion that you, reader, might also become a famous novelist if you simply typed up 100 percent of your internal monologue and hit spell-check.

From New York Times

“Musicians have tools so they can make music either just with computers, or just with guitars or with the two together. Photography has all these digital tools and filters too. Writers for the longest time have had spell-check and grammar check and not much else. We want to create tools to help them.”

From Washington Post

My spell-check program doesn’t recognize the word “Anthropocene,” underlining it in red, as if it’s a typo to be cleaned up and not a geological epoch to be grappled with.

From New York Times

GPS and spell-check, so ubiquitous for so many people, are technologies that assist me with dyslexia.

From Seattle Times

In some cases, the operators didn’t bother to remove spell-check underlines, the think tank said.

From Washington Post