typist
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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
But she found a job as a typist at Radio Tokyo, which enlisted POWs in its propaganda division and recruited her in late 1943 as a disc jockey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
At 15, she joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a typist, but was soon taken on as a reporter.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
“I remember my days as a waiter, cleaner, typist, even my time on the unemployment line,” Ms. Streep said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
He could not be seen or touched or spoken to, and the room where they had spent so many hours had been rented to a girl who worked as a typist.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Everyone working on the inquiry was offered support due to the traumatic nature of the evidence, from detectives to the typists tasked with transcribing interviews.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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
In the few public and business offices that I had visited in Umtata and Fort Hare, the typists had always been white and male.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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