How to Use word processor in a Sentence
word processor
noun- At work she sits in front of her word processor all day.
- She closed down her word processor and opened her e-mail program.
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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
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Unsure of how a new word processor, gadget or process works?
—Nina Wladkowski, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Sep. 2017
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Click this when typing an email or in a word processor and begin speaking.
—Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
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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
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With some modifications, Crispr can be used to cut and paste pieces of DNA almost like a word processor.
—Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
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This word processor is beloved by writers because it was created with the creative process in mind.
—Greta Good, Chron, 5 May 2021
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Submissions must be the original work of the writer and be written using a word processor.
—Joan Rusek, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019
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So many of my contemporaries went to New York and became bartenders or word processors.
—Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 15 May 2018
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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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This is as essential a piece of Mac software as a word processor or a photo-editor.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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There was this long history of the first word processor that got traction was WordPerfect, and it got killed by Microsoft Word.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 18 May 2021
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Your laptop battery will last much longer in programs with little drain on system resources, such as a word processor.
—Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
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McPhee has never used a traditional word processor in his life.
—Sam Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
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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
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The free version allows for up to 300 minutes of recordings and everything is saved to a transcript for easy transfer to other programs, such as a word processor.
—Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
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When Microsoft came up with a word processor everyone who was in the typewriter business lost their job.
—NBC News, 15 Dec. 2019
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This is more of a fix for files that won’t open in your favorite image editor or word processor, but will open in an alternative program.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2021
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Google is bringing a new feature to its online word processor with the introduction of Google Docs style suggestions.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Apr. 2022
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Large language models are being added to search engines and e-commerce sites, and into word processors and spreadsheet software.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
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For example: a lightweight word processor, such as Microsoft Word 5.0, is lightning fast and a true pleasure for just... writing.
—Chris Wilkinson, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
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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
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Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2023
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While there's a standard way to include an image on a web page with HTML code, there's no standard way to include a small image in every messaging app and word processor document.
—Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2021
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The great essay that was turned in for a college writing class assignment may not actually be from a student laboring to craft sentences for hours on a word processor.
—Victor R. Lee, Fortune, 1 May 2023
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To get started, any word processor or text editor is sufficient.
—Stacy S. Kim, Wired, 11 Jan. 2022
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Screenshots that have circulated on social media appear to show Kashuv using racial slurs on Google Docs, an online word processor, and in text messages.
—Washington Post, 17 June 2019
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Reichenstein first had the idea for a focussed word processor in the early nineties, while teaching high-school composition to earn extra money as a graduate student in Basel.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
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The app and browser extension works across programs and platforms, pointing out your split infinitives in email, word processors, websites or on social media.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018
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