typist

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

"It was because I was such a bad typist and was ruining so much of their expensive paper!" she joked.

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

He stayed there for six months; with a typist he reconstructed the manuscript and put together a typescript.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

The reason behind all of those seemingly counterproductive features is that the typewriters of 1873 jammed if adjacent keys were struck in quick succession, so that manufacturers had to slow down typists.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond