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manuscript

[man-yuh-skript] / ˈmæn jəˌskrɪpt /
NOUN
book, script
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Did the keepers of Christie’s legacy object to anything in your manuscript?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The manuscript, known as Codex Azcatitlán, has been held in France's Bibliothèque Nationale since 1898, but had already spent decades outside of Mexico before that.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Stephanie Leach, a sixth-year graduate student in Hwang's lab, contributed to the design of the project, led the experiments conducted with participants, and co-led preparation of the manuscript.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

I kept my hunch a secret but had the manuscript authenticated by an expert.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The lot also included letters, manuscripts, photographs and personal objects preserved by the Hingorani family over generations.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Ms. Hazrat points out that the punctuation of William Shakespeare’s plays seem not to have come from the Bard himself but from the editors, copyreaders, typesetters and publishers who shepherded his manuscripts into finished form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

To demonstrate the approach, the researchers collected cellular samples from 91 manuscripts housed in the Rubenstein Library at Duke University.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Officials searched Ying’s hotel in Brentwood and found blank manuscripts and paperwork similar to the books that Ying had checked out from the university, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Every morning a snowy avalanche of manuscripts swelled the dust-gray piles in the office of the Fiction Editor.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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