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manuscript

[man-yuh-skript] / ˈmæn jəˌskrɪpt /
NOUN
book, script
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He recalls walking into her office and seeing manuscript pages splayed across the floor as she played Tetris trying to conceptualize a book’s structure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

A California man who swapped a library's 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was jailed for a year on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major artwork.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

"The results in this manuscript do not represent evidence for the presence of Majorana zero modes in the reported devices," they wrote.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

He’d been given an advance and had about a year to complete the manuscript.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Ms. Hazrat points out that the punctuation of William Shakespeare’s plays seem not to have come from the Bard himself but from the editors, copyreaders, typesetters and publishers who shepherded his manuscripts into finished form.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

To demonstrate the approach, the researchers collected cellular samples from 91 manuscripts housed in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Speaking ahead of the auction, Will Passey, a specialist in the books and manuscripts department at Sotheby's, said the "moving" letter served as "a testament to the strength" of their friendship.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Ying, 39, would check the works out and return days later with dummy manuscripts.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

They were reluctant to let the manuscripts out of their hands even for a moment.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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