typewrite
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It sounds like what a dude with a drawl would say if you asked for the past tense of "typewrite."
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 12, 2017
Supposedly those symbols sum up greatness with an economy and precision which would surely elude an army of sportswriters hitting random keys on a typewrite for an infinite amount of time.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
Mrs. Stoner attributes the .brilliance of her daughter in no small part to the fact that she taught the child to typewrite at the age of three.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One day they met again, and Emily was able to explain everything, for in the meantime she had learned to typewrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Merton, you’ll want a typewriter for your business correspondence, and Miss Blossom typewrites: it is her profession.’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
Writes some sort of stuff which the girl with him typewrites.
From The Cinema Murder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
He typewrites a letter, forges the signature of the erstwhile Count, and awaits events.
From The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
"Well no—I hardly think—you see he typewrites his letters, and although I know his writing very well I can't at the moment put my hand on any figures of his."
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
The other way was as absurd as the four-year-old prodigy who typewrites and is rather fond of Greek.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro
She typewrote "literature" telling how there was a chance for every man out there, how the big, exhaustless land was eager to yield of its store to all who would come and seek.
From Lifted Masks; stories by Glaspell, Susan
And G. G. went back to his rooms in great glee and typewrote a story that he had finished as well as he could, and sent it to a magazine.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
Ollie gradually typewrote herself to sleep and Prue was not home.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
Ziyi Liu takes typewritten notes during meetings—even though she is an AI research intern at Microsoft, whose software can automatically transcribe and summarize the sessions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
He was referring to the promises made in a short, typewritten letter, dated 2 November 1917, signed by the foreign secretary Arthur Balfour and addressed to Lord Rothschild, a leader of Britain's Jewish community.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
Dunthorne had access to the German original, about 1,800 typewritten pages, as well as to a translated, abridged version distributed to family members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
The quantity of typewritten evidence presented at the trials—200,000 affidavits and sworn depositions of over 360 live witnesses, according to the last living signal-corps typist—all needed to be translated into English, French, Russian, and German.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
As he flipped through the book, he pointed randomly at a short typewritten letter.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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She saved only one, with typewriting on the envelope.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2022
The 35-year-old has invited Hanks to visit his shop, Typewronger Books, while the National Museum of Scotland's typewriting exhibition is on show.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
“Thank you … for keeping the sound and fury of typewriting available to all.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
It was recognized as the most advanced typewriting machine yet, and won first prize and a gold medal.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
“You are Cyrus Bethman Hardman, United States subject, forty-one years of age, travelling salesman for typewriting ribbons?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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