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[skrahyb] / skraɪb /
NOUN
one who transcribes professionally
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NOUN
writer
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The fragments, written in ancient Greek by what was thought to be an Egyptian scribe and his teacher, are the oldest existing version of the poem arranged into a book.

From BBC Jul. 23, 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

My A.I. scribe has restored the joy to my practice, an experience that is not quantifiable in a metric but which my patients and I can feel in our bones.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

One Bay Area sports scribe took to calling him the “sphinx of Berkeley” and wondered if he even so much as said hello to his wife in the evening these days.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

He never de- 79:21 scribed disease, so far as can be learned from the Gospels,         but he healed disease.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

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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