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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

As the Journal’s baseball scribe Jared Diamond pointed out, the Dodgers didn’t have to get Skubal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Penner said the work was copied over in Ancient Greek "probably by a student or a somewhat skilful scribe".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which he directed, was his final project as a scribe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

The morning ritual went on, each worker accepting his portion from Ranofer and carrying it to the courtyard to begin his task, while the scribe kept strict account of every grain.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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

The marks should be scribed across the surface, as shown in Fig.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe

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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