word-process

present singular third person word-processes · participle present word-processing · participle past word-processed · past word-processed

1. alternativeAlternative form of wordprocess.

   In the distance there was a growl of thunder. I didn’t leave my computer on, did I? thought Isobel. A colleague at Oxford had once been word-processing during a storm with disastrous results.

   2000, Catherine Fox, chapter 9, in Love for the Lost, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 101

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   Once he’d surprised her when he mentioned he loved some Shakespearean lines about horses. “I’ve always remembered them, Con. We had to read Henry V in college.” Slowly, he repeated them: “‘Think when we talk of horses that you see them/Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth.’” […] She had word-processed the lines for herself, bought a frame at Wal-Mart, and placed the humble copy on her beside table.

   2004, Marilyn M. Fisher, chapter 4, in The Case of the Three Dead Horses, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Bedside Books, →ISBN, pages 37–38

   I was composing one day and somehow I had inadvertently selected a large chunk of text and deleted it. It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced this frustration. I complained to my son Eric about it and he said, ‘Just hit Ctrl+Z and it will come back.’ I couldn’t believe I had been word-processing for over 20 years and no one had ever told me about it!

   2023 April 29, Sue Bruns, “Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that?”, in Pioneer Weekender, 127th year, number 13, Bemidji, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 3