copy editor
Example Sentences
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Prior to that, he was a copy editor at the Star-Ledger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024
In my usual job as a copy editor for this newspaper, I tend to cast a skeptical eye on a writer’s use of the word “ecstatic.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
He clung tight to the copy editor as they wove through Washington traffic to the Post building.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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