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In May 1962, Cormac McCarthy addressed a letter to the “fiction editor” of Random House—the only publisher he’d heard of—and sent it along with a manuscript he had not proofread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s a clear no, with the only exceptions being when editors use A.I. to proofread their writing or translate foreign-language entries.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Apple said that workers at the new factory in Texas will produce servers for Apple Intelligence, an AI system that can help people write, proofread text and complete other tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

Kaspar did a Q&A for the Sophia’s Cure YouTube channel from the Gaynors’ dining room and proofread posts Vincent wrote for the charity’s website.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

Henry stood behind Francis’s chair and leaned over his shoulder and began to proofread the top of the last page, one elbow resting on the table.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Scheduling should include time for rewrites, proofreads and secondary reads by friends, colleagues and family members, experts say.

From Nature ● Dec. 19, 2019

Between homework and scholarship applications, Huynh said she usually proofreads her dad’s emails, checking for accurate grammar and punctuation. He keeps a notebook with key vocabulary terms and phrases by his computer to learn daily.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2018

He also proofreads the game program and can recall statistics, with savant-like accuracy, from Oregon Tech victories 20 years ago.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012

On the train, she makes more calls and proofreads documents.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one of those studies, participants asked five friends in person to help them with a brief proofreading task.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It will go back to a simple proofreading tool.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Its corporate communications “was an early adopter and leverages the technology in a number of areas including copy-editing and proofreading, complementing rigorous team member reviews.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

Human editors then adapt the generated copy to something that the real Al Michaels might say spontaneously, while proofreading the text for any typos—especially those pertaining to athlete names.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2024

Now he had to struggle to say something that interested her, something that made her look up from her plate, or from her proofreading files.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri