1
as in writers
a person who creates a written work
the prolific penman of dozens of horror stories
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as in scribes
one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts
an essay on Jacob Shallus, the penman who inked the United States Constitution
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Noun
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Microsoft recently released a list of the 40 jobs most vulnerable to AI, with translators, sales reps, historians, and writers deemed some of the most affected occupations by generative AI.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026 -
This is not your usual best-of list, where food writers fly in for a whirlwind weekend of eating and drinking, often relying on the institutional knowledge of the locals who know the scene best.—
Liz Johnson,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Studies estimate that European scribes produced approximately 11 million books over the 900 years before the printing press.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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This was common practice in ancient times, as parchments were expensive, leading scribes to reuse old manuscripts to archive new information.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
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The authors speculated that the changes, which lasted for another four weeks after the individuals stopped playing, were partly due to the three-dimensional environment of Super Mario.—
Amanda Gardner,
Martha Stewart,
8 Feb. 2026
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The law’s authors pointed to research showing that the teenage brain is vastly different from an adult’s.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Founded in the 10th century, this complex of churches was a crucible of wisdom for calligraphers, philosophers and illuminators.—
Marlise Kast-Myers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Mustapha comes from a family of Islamic scholars and calligraphers.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Penmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penmen. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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