typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

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

It took the city 377 business days to approve a list of candidates for a clerk typist position and 362 calendar days for a position at the Long Beach port, he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

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

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu