typist

Example Sentences

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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Eileen did not appear to have writerly aspirations, though she did act as Orwell’s note taker, first reader, editor, typist, agent and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

“I’m the twenty-fourth speediest typist in the class.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu