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typist

[tahy-pist] / ˈtaɪ pɪst /


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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

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

Internet chat sessions were done via satellite phone and a typist in New York.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

But jobs that entailed doing more routine cognitive work such as typists and back-office bookkeepers—roles that had once promised a solid path to the middle class—were no longer so vital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

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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