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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
  • Customers will be able to receive specific mindfulness and wellness exercise recommendations after typing their name and age into the app.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Handwriting slows the pace of thinking just enough to encourage deeper processing, better retention, and more original ideas, outcomes that typing, and indeed AI, rarely deliver.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vine & Dandy is open to making a custom color or even potentially printing a unique design on a shirt.
    Erik S. Hanley, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The wrong way to think about dollars is as dollar bills; and the wrong way to think about increasing the money supply is as a printing press, printing more dollar bills.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Storehouse Voices founder Tamira Chapman is boldly rewriting this script with the help of ESSENCE for a historic contest.
    Bridgette Bartlett, Essence, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At that time, former army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha—who seized power in a 2014 coup d’etat—was still Prime Minister after rewriting the constitution to guarantee a guiding role for the military.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • TwinMind runs mostly offline, transcribing real-time on the device, capturing up to 16-17 hours of audio without killing the battery.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In the days before photography was an available tool, astronomers toggled between the viewfinder and the sketch pad, transcribing their telescopic findings to the printed page.
    David Kamp, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025

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“Typewriting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typewriting. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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