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[tahyp] / taɪp /








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Quarterback Justin Herbert isn’t the type to complain about working with limited options.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

"What type of species are we going to have left in our customary fishing ground? We have to do something," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Mr. Silvertown calculates that at their seasonal high point there are a thousand times more leaves in one type of British grassland than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dragon also transported materials for investigating how a new type of glass forms in microgravity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Just out of interest, I type in Willem Bloem without an address.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

It has different types of wetlands, including freshwater and sailing lagoons as well as seasonally flooded areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

"When things started to come back, different types of fish species, invertebrates, all back, I'm like the most happiest person in the whole village," Duwai said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The different types of AI-inspired losses range from bodily injury and property damage—caused by, say, an error-prone factory robot—to copyright infringement, unauthorized data disclosures, hallucinated errors and regulatory penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

For over five decades, there have existed two types of movie lover: those who have been at least a little corrupted by Ken Russell’s 1971 iconoclasterpiece “The Devils” and those who haven’t seen it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Michael Burry focused, abstractly, on the structure of the loans, and bet on pools with high concentrations of the types that he believed were designed to fail.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In Baghdad, young professionals sipped iced coffee and typed on laptops in the exclusive Karrada neighborhood on a recent, seemingly peaceful day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

During the pandemic, I was so bored out of my mind that one night close to midnight I just typed “deaf women” in Google search.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Among the discoveries was a typed schedule detailing Queen Elizabeth II's plans to host a diplomatic reception in her Silver Jubilee year of 1977.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

It must be 100% handwritten with no typed words, printed forms or help from another person.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Without preamble, he pulled out a tablet, typed a few things in, and handed it to me.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The fact that I and countless other writers are typing out similar commentaries all but ensures it.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

Getting here now — typing away while I sniffle with a cold, a life I wouldn’t change for the world — required carefully deflating a rapidly overblown ego.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

As I was typing this, she started laughing and said “hey, make sure you put the word shagadelic” in there……..

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Harp has been a near-constant presence at Trump's side in his second term, sometimes typing out social media posts for him and printing out information, a role that has seen her dubbed the "human printer."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

My eyes ached from the strain of typing.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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