typing

present participle of type

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of typing 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 For us, typing games were the most-exciting thing on a computer until [educational strategy video game] The Oregon Trail came around. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 Voice is more natural than typing. Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Opening the lid—easily done one-handed—slightly elevates the laptop's rear, angling the keyboard for a more ergonomic typing posture. Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025 Other additions to the Messages app, at least for people safely ensconced in a group of blue-bubble friends, are live-updating polls, and typing indicators that tell you which person in a group chat is typing. ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 Live telling is more plastic than typing or thinking or making notes. David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for typing
Verb
  • Forecasters give Sherrill an advantage, with both the Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball classifying the race as Leans Democrat.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One example is neuron selectivity in neural networks for classifying images.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hong Kong’s financial secretary Paul Chan said Sunday that initial public offerings had raised nearly 150 billion Hong Kong dollars so far this year, ranking top globally.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • With three of the next four opponents having offenses ranking in the bottom 10 in yards per game, the time is now for the Cowboys’ defense to figure out its issues before the gauntlet that awaits in November and December.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To cope, Chinese companies have turned more to grouping large numbers of less efficient, often homegrown, chips together to achieve similar computing capabilities.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Create a neutral fall display by grouping elegant white and pale-orange pumpkins.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the current threat environment, the offenders are often not distinguishing.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This is not distinguishing Russia.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Autonomous mobile robots, truck-unloading robots, pick-and-pack robots and sorting robots are just a few examples of the varying types of technology working to create the warehouse of the future.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Inside were bunk beds, a little table, and a small gear-sorting area, where two Russian men, one large and one small, were chatting and eating cheese.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mahomes’ connections with Tyquan Thornton secured the victory, relegating New York to their first 0-3 season since 2021.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • To make room, the 2025–26 campaign will promote two teams from the second tier while relegating just one through a new playoff system.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Professors and faculty need guidance Kasun — the professor from Georgia State — also doesn't believe professors should use AI for grading.
    Lee V. Gaines, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There is no such thing as an ‘A+’ in this grading system.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sultana, Schneider, and others talk of placing the new party at the core of grassroots institutions meant to radicalize British society from below and bring societal change.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Haberman recommended defining freestanding birthing centers in the local Land Development Code — pulling the definition from the new state law — and placing the centers under the umbrella of medical clinics.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025

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