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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013

The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fair analogy would be the case of a chemist or engineer who had recently begun to dabble in Greek in his spare moments, and who should undertake to emend the text of Sophocles.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

By water, with most editors, emends the text.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram

So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but Bentley emends to 'Sèvres,' which must surely be correct.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William

B. emends and renders: Nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict, in battle-work.

From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Hall, Lesslie

Experience accumulates and man's knowledge grows; the expectation and joy in progress is a part of it; man's code changes, emends, expands with his onward marching.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

The chronological impossibility involved in the figure is removed by Mohl who emends it to 260.

From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Nariman, G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro)

The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”

From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016

The following were identified as spelling or typographic errors and have been emended as noted.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

I have silently emended a few passages; otherwise the text translated is that of Epigrammatum Delectus, Paris, 1659.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

The following have been identified as typographical errors and have been emended.

From Baby Nightcaps by Fanny, Aunt

"Like the fussy kind," Rosemary emended to herself.

From Rainbow Hill by Gooch, Thelma

"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson