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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
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
Legally, clinicians are entirely responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the medical record, meaning they must review and sign off on the notes the scribe creates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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
Bill Plaschke’s eloquent elegy about Kobe may be the best column he’s ever scribed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
The "apotropaic" marks were scribed into the cave surface as they were thought to keep evil spirits coming from the underworld.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2019
Not long ago, I spent a day following Lynden Lee as he scribed at a Massachusetts General Hospital primary-care practice.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
Exquisitely inked manuscript records of these marks still exist: lines and crosses scribed across diagrammatic beaks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
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
The boys were early trained to copy—though not to read; he had to teach himself that part—and those with any skill were drafted into scribing.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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