typist
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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
I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
For years, as a two-finger typist, he exuberantly turned out one major article after another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
In the morning the Germans run him through a second, more laconic spell of questioning while a typist clatters away in the corner.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Between 1900 and 1930, female typists and stenographers increased more than 10-fold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
Aside from Pentagon typists, she realized, she was the first woman to read these documents.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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