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scribe

[skrahyb] / skraɪb /
NOUN
one who transcribes professionally
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NOUN
writer
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Penner said the work was copied over in Ancient Greek "probably by a student or a somewhat skilful scribe".

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

Tennis Association has asked carriers to airbrush the reaction, tennis scribe Ben Rothenberg reported –Alcaraz-Sinner has become the best theater in sports.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 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

“Sah,” murmured Ranofer automatically, reminded of his lessons with the scribe.

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

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

Exquisitely inked manuscript records of these marks still exist: lines and crosses scribed across diagrammatic beaks.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2017

If the lower rail be moulded with the same members as the sash bar, the end of the sash bar will have to be scribed on to it to make a fit.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William

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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