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retype

  • a word derived from type.
    type
    noun
    a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category.

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But then a user must retype pickup and drop-off locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Even so, she said, “I took the letter and I thought about it overnight, and then I decided to mail it, but I decided to retype it first.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2021

For another project, she would pull information out of mortgage documents or retype names and addresses from photos of business cards, sometimes for as little as a dollar an hour.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

“His weird, muscular, convoluted syntax — it was fun to retype and live in it. It’s like a musician playing scales.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2015

“It was a short paragraph. It wouldn’t have taken her long to retype it and make copies.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman