galley proof
Example Sentences
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If journalism is the first draft of history, documentary filmmaking is often an overdue, dog-eared galley proof with no cover art.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Cuarón received the 2015 novel that the series is based on from author Renée Knight about a decade ago as a galley proof.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024
For the next seven years or so, all the way to galley proof in 1984, McCarthy whittled Blood Meridian down into the lean nightmare we now know.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2012
At length their leader arose, produced sheets of galley proof and read from midnight until nearly dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
In referring to it, I am therefore obliged to use the word Taylor followed by the letters and figures designating the page of this galley proof on which the passage referred to is found.
From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.
