typist

Example Sentences

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When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

When Mr Taylor joined the BBC newsroom in Belfast he was the only reporter, alongside a news editor and a typist.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

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