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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013

The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend.

From Time Magazine Archive

If his words could be lawfully shown to have such a tendency he would revoke, emend, and correct them in a Catholic spirit.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

The chronological impossibility involved in the figure is removed by Mohl who emends it to 260.

From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman

So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but Bentley emends to 'Sèvres,' which must surely be correct.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh

B. emends and renders: Nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict, in battle-work.

From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall

Experience accumulates and man's knowledge grows; the expectation and joy in progress is a part of it; man's code changes, emends, expands with his onward marching.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

By water, with most editors, emends the text.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater

The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”

From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016

The text is quite corrupt, but I insert it as I have emended it from a comparison of three copies.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton

However, fasciole 14 of the AAS for 1930 emended the text and seems to have withdrawn the formal condemnation of punitive sterilization. a subject of theological discussion at the time.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

"To make me a good girl," she emended.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

The transcript has δικαιος and τεθαψεν; for which Hermann has emended as above.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson