amanuensis
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In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Gilot is Picasso’s amanuensis, his interlocutor and interpreter, his money manager, his model.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
In later years, with Mr. Merwin’s eyesight failing, Paula Merwin became his amanuensis, taking down new poems at his dictation.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2019
“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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