Examples of word processor in a Sentence
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
As a child in the 1980s, his family owned a word processor with a screen that allowed one to view and edit just a couple lines of writing at a time.
—Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
Their privacy-violating predecessors, data brokers, also scraped the web and assembled massive dossiers on individuals, but their outputs aren’t available to the average person, for free, or integrated into search engines and word processors.
—Alice Marwick, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
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1968, in the meaning defined above
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