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

Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

Normally an obsessive outliner and reviser, he began writing a screenplay without any clear idea of where it was going.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010

C. Merriam:—Gentlemen, I have just had the honor of receiving the noble volume in which you and the great lexicographer, and the accomplished reviser, unite your labors to "bid the language live."

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)