copy editor
Example Sentences
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Before joining the Journal, he was weekend editor and a senior copy editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in London.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024
In my usual job as a copy editor for this newspaper, I tend to cast a skeptical eye on a writer’s use of the word “ecstatic.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
Denise, the copy editor, has done all my books since Boys and Girls Together and she had never been as emotional in the margins with me before.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
