typing

present participle of type

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of typing 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 Many of her other memories of Freetown come secondhand from typing up The Taste of Country Cooking. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025 Alton Peterson, 74, is confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak, communicating instead by typing out messages. Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2025 Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Paul Spann, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 This is an above-average keyboard for typing satisfaction and comfort, with bouncy feedback and nicely sized keys. Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025 Still, residents can see whether the holiday will impact their regular pickup schedule by typing in their zip code on the Rumpke site. Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2025 Even typing those words out induced an eyeroll — what a vintage trope. James Factora, Them., 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for typing
Verb
  • Delays in classifying more illnesses hurt people, Tom O'Connor said.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The court forbade companies from classifying workers as independent contractors except in narrow circumstances.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Here, The Athletic attempts to unravel the Ballon d’Or riddle by ranking the top 10 contenders.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Rice made my list twice, ranking #81 in 2023 and #76 in 2024.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Connections is all about grouping words.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To avoid a cluttered appearance and make the cabinet shelves appear as though they were styled with intention, Cordony recommends grouping items.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kraft Heinz also had trouble distinguishing its products from cheaper store brands.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Hope to see more distinguishing benefits down the road.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What this means is that the industry needs to expand and modernize its collecting, sorting and preprocessing infrastructure by investing in things like automation, which can offer faster throughput and more accurate fiber identification.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers at Illinois' Northwestern University might have a way to largely skip sorting plastic.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cadillac does, however, win back a few points for keeping some physical controls around instead of relegating everything to the touchscreen, even if some of the buttons look a bit chintzy.
    Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Business leaders outside the technology bubble need to become more intimately involved with AI initiatives, versus relegating them to technical teams, who don’t necessarily fully connect the dots to business needs.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • On the tender, workers are grading quality, which includes factors like minimal scale loss, minimal net marks, bite marks from other animals, good color and a plump size.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There is no ‘A+’ in this grading system.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in this day and age, with so many soccer-specific stadiums in Major League Soccer and in lower division leagues, placing a national team in a baseball stadium would not be a good idea.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday, the NCAA permanently banned three Fresno State players for illicitly placing prop bets on themselves or teammates to over or underperform in certain statistical categories.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Typing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typing. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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