reviser

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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

The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

Alo has been a prolific record reviser during this year’s College World Series.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022

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