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

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

And though the two men are friends Lucas couldn’t have picked a better amanuensis than Abrams, who honors his heroes but doesn’t have it in him to drive a light sabre through their hearts.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

Her career was wobbly by then, but for much of the time before her death in 1975, Mr. Baker supported her, serving as manager, companion and amanuensis.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

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

If I had been doing my work in the city, he could have found me stenographers, amanuenses, or type-writers by the hundred.

From The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton

There is also the uncertain element that may possibly be due to the use of different amanuenses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others and to write with a noctograph or by amanuenses.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Most of the money he received for the work went to pay his six amanuenses.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey