reviser

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Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

Alo has been a prolific record reviser during this year’s College World Series.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022

Shakespeare, too, was a tireless reviser, Mr. Shapiro pointed out, even adding some songs to a later production of “Macbeth,” of all plays, just to perk it up.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

Part I., by Lord Strange's players, as a reason for Shakespeare's membership, infers that he was the author of this play, or, at least, its reviser in 1592, and that the Talbot scenes are his.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur