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as in amanuensis
one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts
variations between the different manuscripts attest to the fallibility of the scribes who transmitted them
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as in registrar
an official whose job is to keep records
the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings
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as in writer
a person who creates a written work
a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe
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Recent Examples of scribe
Rakhee Langer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
The ingredient arrived in Christian monasteries, where scribes would dissolve it in water to create ink or paint.
—Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Pic is written by Australian scribe Phil Lloyd (Population 11) and will be helmed by veteran commercials director Roderick Fenske, marking his feature debut.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 May 2025
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Noun
Many scribes are also multilingual, enabling providers to overcome language barriers and better serve a more diverse patient population.
—Rakhee Langer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
The ingredient arrived in Christian monasteries, where scribes would dissolve it in water to create ink or paint.
—Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
According to Simpsons scribe Mike Scully, there wasn’t any deliberate prophesying going on in the writers room back then.
—Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Pic is written by Australian scribe Phil Lloyd (Population 11) and will be helmed by veteran commercials director Roderick Fenske, marking his feature debut.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 May 2025
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Noun
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The journalist’s tone was snarky, but there were some direct quotes from my father’s amanuenses.—
Sage Mehta,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2024
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By Hillary Kelly The story goes that John Milton—who went blind in his early 40s—composed 20 lines of Paradise Lost in his mind each evening, and then repeated them aloud the next day to an assortment of amanuenses, among them his three daughters.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2024
Noun
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But just as much of the malicious texting market is driven by Chinese gangs, the most dangerous TLDs are issued by Chinese registrars.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The supervisors selected Curtis from a pool of five finalists that included Shasta County’s current deputy registrar of voters and top elections workers from around the country.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Today, their descendants are politely called writers.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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Set to John Kander and Fred Ebb's — the legendary duo behind Chicago and Cabaret — award-winning score and a book by Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Condon's adaptation draws inspiration from the Broadway musical and the acclaimed 1976 novel of the same name by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig.—
Mekishana Pierre Updated,
EW.com,
5 June 2025
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May 20, 2025 An emergency motion for that temporary furlough was filed Tuesday in federal court, and documents were obtained and reviewed by The Times.—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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Sentencing papers filed Thursday show Jaydin Davinci Alford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, reduced from first-degree murder, in exchange for the sentence imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Melanie Martin.—
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
13 June 2025
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Material features can also include things like colophons—formulas at the end of a text that attest to its completeness and fidelity and often also include the name of the copyist—doodles in the margins, mistakes and corrections, even handwriting style.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2025
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The watercolor was recently rejected by specialists in 2020, who believe the copyist worked from a photograph of the work that was first published in 1904.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
4 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Months later, police arrested Hoffman, a store clerk, and he was found guilty of beating the young father-to-be with a claw hammer and shooting him.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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After the clerk handed over about $1,000 in cash, the bandit left the bank and drove off in a Prius, the sergeant said.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Writing at length is to me always an act of learning and changing, in which authors can strive towards something more dimensional than a platitude on a placard.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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The author has no connection to Woody Guthrie or his heirs.—
Time,
Time,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Traditional metrics like likes, shares and views only scratch the surface.—
Jehan Hamedi,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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It is crafted from 100 percent fir wood that’s durable enough to withstand everything from cat scratches to wind gusts.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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“Scribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scribe. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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