as in to review
to look for and correct mistakes in (a written or printed piece of writing)
He proofread the essay carefully.
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Recent Examples of proofread
Those features included writing tools that can proofread or rewrite text, a new design for Siri that makes the whole phone screen glow and notification summaries.
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Kif Leswing, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
For example, students who spend semesters or summers immersed in internships often start with tasks like logging data, responding to emails, or proofreading reports.
—Marvin Krislov, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The first wave of Apple Intelligence features includes writing tools that can proofread or rewrite text, new features that can remove objects from photos and a feature that can summarize a stack of notifications into a single message.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead of copying and pasting the final, proofread version from Link’s office, the outside vendor that prepared the 2,687 electronic ballots for overseas and military voters had re-inputted a small amount of information.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
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Kif Leswing, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
For example, students who spend semesters or summers immersed in internships often start with tasks like logging data, responding to emails, or proofreading reports.
—Marvin Krislov, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The first wave of Apple Intelligence features includes writing tools that can proofread or rewrite text, new features that can remove objects from photos and a feature that can summarize a stack of notifications into a single message.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead of copying and pasting the final, proofread version from Link’s office, the outside vendor that prepared the 2,687 electronic ballots for overseas and military voters had re-inputted a small amount of information.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proofread
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The Second Look Commission was established to review a sampling of severe child abuse cases to monitor state response and make policy recommendations to lawmakers on the issue.—
Vivian Jones,
The Tennessean,
3 Feb. 2025
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Southerners taste and review the Barefoot Contessa's pimiento cheese.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2025
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The probe studied the universe in microwaves through 2010, and did so from a location 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth at a stable point in space called Lagrange Point 2.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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Until she’s asked to prolong her stay on board of a research vessel for a whole winter, as scientists study the first people ever known to hibernate.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2025
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Sanders read and reread the rule book and took the same weekly rules test as the league’s officials.—
Dan Woike,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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Every intervention, rereading, and retrospection by Jameson is about the present and the wish to shape the future.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Along the way, Chihaya dedicated her life to reading.—
Kristen Martin,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2025
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While mostly reading from prepared remarks, Levine Cava departed from the script early on when a granddaughter in the front row began crying about four minutes into the mayor’s speech.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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Global Monitoring: Their system tracks over 13 million companies worldwide, scanning information in 12 languages to detect potential disruptions like financial instability or delays at ports.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by NASA to scan the sky in search of near-Earth asteroids, said Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at JPL and CNEOS.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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