scrivener

Example Sentences

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Instead, he decided to take the test to become a judicial scrivener, a job similar to being a paralegal that has a 3 percent acceptance rate.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2021

In "Minor Feelings," Hong firmly rejects the idea of having the authority to act as a scrivener or "spokesperson" for any racial identity.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020

“I am but the scrivener looking for language that might please everybody,” he wrote, “and I have tried to accomplish that in the attached latest draft.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2017

“With submission, what word, sir,” asked Turkey, respectfully crowding himself into the contracted space behind the screen, and by so doing, making me jostle the scrivener.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

Sir, I may go near to guess at your employments; you, sir, are a lawyer, I presume—you a physician, you a scrivener, and you a stock jobber.——All cut-throats, egad!

From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George