typist

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

“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 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

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