How to Use printing press in a Sentence

printing press

noun
  • Then, the Fed flipped the switch on its printing presses.
    John Greenwood, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Like the printing press, the internet and telephones, AI will not be the end of the world.
    Bars Juhasz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • It is named for the year that the printing press was invented — and the number of minutes in a day.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • They were tasked with retrofitting the truck to better haul a bulky vintage printing press.
    Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • Take the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Since the printing press and the radio waves, technology in the arts has been at the service of the people.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In both films, one of the characters is employed at a printing press.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That bad idea was to build a show around the 15th-century invention of the printing press.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Ray Dalio still thinks cash is trash as printing presses roll.
    Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • The visual star of the show was a Goss printing press painted a vibrant yellow.
    Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Like the invention of the printing press, history is about to be made.
    Andy Baldwin, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • In a sense, Web3 is as transformative as the printing press once was.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • This is one factor thought to have helped the printing press spread so quickly in Europe.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Murray said that a problem with the printing press may have led to the carbon dioxide dump.
    Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • As a bonus, the company realized the printing press was down 40% of the time and could now fix it quicker.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 22 June 2022
  • Mofe, as he is known, is an electrician at a printing press.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Pérez said the printing press position paid her $8.25 an hour.
    Jake Heller, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2017
  • How can that be, with Jay Powell’s printing press in overdrive?
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Throughout the ages, people have feared everything from forks to the printing press.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
  • There was even a printing press, with which the twelve hundred colonists aboard planned to manage a future busy with contracts and treaties.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2018
  • But soon his ideas were mass-produced on a printing press and spread throughout Germany.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • His father, Emil, owned and ran a small-scale printing press, and his mother, Belle Speiser, managed the home.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 20 May 2024
  • Subhash makes a living selling fish and owns a printing press.
    Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • Biden noted that the invention of the printing press had effects that are still felt today.
    John Harwood, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2023
  • There was tremendous demand for the new software printing press.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Confederate printing press broke and took some weeks to get running again.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Theatre and books let people to step into the shoes of others, and with the printing press these stories spread widely.
    The Economist, 4 Nov. 2019
  • In 1851, the Free Press bought a steam engine to power the paper's printing press, which is dubbed Peggy Ann for reasons now long lost.
    Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
  • Six hundred years of Gutenberg, and the printing press never made decisions on its own.
    Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Napoleon introduced the printing press and founded an academy of sciences (the Institut d’Égypte, which was severely damaged during the popular uprising of 2011).
    John M. Owen Iv, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2015

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