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Examples of word processor in a Sentence
At work she sits in front of her word processor all day.
She closed down her word processor and opened her e-mail program.
Recent Examples on the Web
Major tech firms like Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce have already started marketing many of their AI tools as productivity enhancers, framing them as the next evolution of the word processor or spreadsheet.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
When the macOS version gets a similar feature, then Pages will be a lot more usable as a word processor for long documents.
—Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
Students are writing their next school paper with the aid of a smart word processor, capable not just of completing sentences, but generating entire essays on any topic.
—TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
In the memoir, Swisher slashes her way through the tech world like John Wick with a word processor, vanquishing vain CEOs and clueless legacy media bosses and emerging without a scratch.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
But everything from the word processor this text was written in to the CPU that ran it is decades old.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 5 July 2023
In the end, LLMs may be little more than the word processor of tomorrow, a handy innovation that makes things a little easier while leaving most of our lives untouched.
—Albert Fox Cahn, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2024
The report claims that Photos, Camera, and Snipping Tool—all apps that work with either photos or screenshots—could soon include optical character recognition (OCR) features that would allow users to copy and paste text from images into word processors and text editors.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2023
And what better way to teach humanity to use A.I. than through something as unsexy as a word processor?
—Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1968, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near word processor
Cite this Entry
“Word processor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word%20processor. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
word processor
noun
: a keyboard-operated terminal usually with a video display and a magnetic storage device for use in word processing
also
: software (as for a computer system) to perform word processing
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