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scribe

[skrahyb] / skraɪb /
NOUN
one who transcribes professionally
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NOUN
writer
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"I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict thus far. So I'm extremely skeptical of this."

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Harp also serves as something of a social media scribe for Trump, posting to his Truth Social account on his behalf.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Our honorable scribe faces the music about a boneheaded Sixers prediction.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Or as one scribe put it, the school didn’t want to be dwarfed by “a gigantic breakfast side dish.”

From MarketWatch Dec. 12, 2025

The scribe glanced at the sword hanging over the bar and drew a deep breath, his expression becoming vaguely anxious.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

Luke even remembers the name of the first song that he wrote, entitled “Where Am I,” which he scribed after the death of a friend from his church.

From Seattle Times Oct. 24, 2022

Bill Plaschke’s eloquent elegy about Kobe may be the best column he’s ever scribed.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2021

Petroglyphs, scribed into desert rocks thousands of years ago, alert him to the human pasts of places deemed unpeopled “wastes” by the first white men to apprehend them.

From New York Times Jul. 7, 2020

Do thou get some more letters, and I'll get them scribed of   Mistress Love and Conscience, And we'll go beg livings together; we'll beg no small pence.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Who is taking care of the patients all those scribing doctors aren’t seeing?

From The New Yorker Nov. 5, 2018

I would get John Bradley to start scribing out the entire books that George R.R.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2017

Two decades after that first visit, Magdalen’s 15th-century cloisters, decorated with coats of arms and gargoyles, looked every bit as inspiring as I remembered, though deserted, the scholars no doubt scribing upstairs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2016

The important thing is that the Supreme Court has now closed the circle it was scribing with Bilski and Mayo vs.

From Forbes Jun. 19, 2014

We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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