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Six example sentences with secretarial, each labelled with its topic.
The temp agency advertised secretarial work: typing letters, keeping the diary, and answering three phone lines at once.
Business
Before 1970 most secretarial posts in the ministry went to women who took shorthand at ninety words a minute.
History
The firm's secretarial staff logged every filing deadline, and a single missed entry could cost a client the case.
Law
The new software absorbed most secretarial tasks, scheduling meetings and typing up notes without anyone dictating a word.
Technology
The clinic's secretarial team books appointments, chases referrals, and calms patients who arrive on the wrong day.
Medicine
A minister's secretarial staff reads the post first, and a letter reaches her only after they judge it worth her time.
Politics
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