amanuensis

In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Bart was an untrained tune savant, a latter-day Irving Berlin; if the songs are so hummable it’s probably because his composition method was built on humming them to an amanuensis.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

Gilot is Picasso’s amanuensis, his interlocutor and interpreter, his money manager, his model.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018

So Corinthians was almost on her way to becoming an amanuensis after all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

Thábit, one of the Prophet's amanuenses, who collected the fragments with great difficulty "from bits of parchment, thin white stones, leafless palm-branches, and the bosoms of men."

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

He appears to have kept amanuenses to copy interesting manuscripts.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

I have never less than two horses, usually five or six amanuenses.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

We went through the entire pleadings of this case and when finished, took up another and another until now we are not lawyers, but some are able to be stenographers for lawyers, and others amanuenses.

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