Example Sentences

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I typically ran into the bug when typing at my fastest, or after a long string of mistyped letters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“I mistyped the coordinates to the galaxy I intended to observe, resulting in the telescope pointing to a different part of the sky than intended,” she recounted recently in an email.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Companies often buy up mistyped versions of their real Web addresses to protect against attacks like these, said Allen, whose firm ZeroFox offers to assist companies in finding and buying typo domains on their behalf.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2021

But not all misread and mistyped words are so spooky.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

At some point on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into mainstream hacker usage.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.