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typewriting

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verb

present participle of typewrite

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of typewriting
Noun
Contests in commercial work will be conducted at the high school April 12, in beginning typewriting, advance typewriting and shorthand for schools in this district. Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 That's clearly not going to happen, though, because Jughead's not leaving Betty or his typewriting spot at Pop's. Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 May 2018 The first professional typewriting contest was held in Cincinnati July 25, 1888, in which our own Louis Traub was bested by touch-typer Frank E. McGurrin. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for typewriting
Verb
  • They are designed to trick you into typing your username and password into a fake form.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Created in 2006 by the British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, the haunting life-size figures, including a man typing at a desk (entitled The Lost Correspondent), fishermen, market traders, and a ring of children holding hands, can be viewed by snorkelers and divers ducking beneath the bay’s surface.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By printing jigs, control surfaces, and structural shells, firms cut weeks to days in iteration cycles, incorporate field feedback rapidly, and lower unit costs, which is key when loss rates for FPV and small ISR drones are measured per day in high-intensity conditions.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Families and guardians can show it at each participating location by printing it or showing it on their phone.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Put it all together, and the larger story is that wealth managers and GPs are rewriting the rules for how money moves around the world.
    Henry Fernandez, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The 7-foot-3 unicorn, still in the early stages of rewriting how basketball is played, just made a move few in the world can.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But many of the available tools are focused on reducing administrative burden by transcribing clinical visits, drafting notes and formulating appeal letters.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But voicemails also have a blue dot next to the red phone number or name (along with text summarizing or transcribing the voicemail underneath if those settings are active).
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Typewriting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typewriting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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