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[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

Harp also serves as something of a social media scribe for Trump, posting to his Truth Social account on his behalf.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

I once took a game off the Journal’s late, great tennis scribe, Tom Perrotta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Staggering away, the scribe felt his heel snag on the rough ground, and he began to topple over backward, arms flailing wildly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Note wheel layouts, etc., scribed in the paneling.

From The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 by Silvio A. Bedini

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

I said incredulously, thinking of the pale, quiet students who worked in the Archives, sorting, scribing, and fetching books.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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