reviser
Example Sentences
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Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
Shakespeare, too, was a tireless reviser, Mr. Shapiro pointed out, even adding some songs to a later production of “Macbeth,” of all plays, just to perk it up.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2015
Normally an obsessive outliner and reviser, he began writing a screenplay without any clear idea of where it was going.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
Again, the Latin headings to the psalms of the Psalter; with what an impatient gesture can we imagine a spruce reviser brushing these away as so much trash!
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
