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

I sure would hate to be out that much because I mistyped a digit.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2022

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

One mistyped letter, in one single line, had deprived the nation's capital of phone service.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce