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scribe

[skrahyb] / skraɪb /
NOUN
one who transcribes professionally
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NOUN
writer
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"I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict thus far. So I'm extremely skeptical of this."

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

As the Journal’s baseball scribe Jared Diamond pointed out, the Dodgers didn’t have to get Skubal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Penner said the work was copied over in Ancient Greek "probably by a student or a somewhat skilful scribe".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which he directed, was his final project as a scribe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

I think it’s because she’s not working with Edna and Jamie, who’ve been assigned to the scribe committee.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Bill Plaschke’s eloquent elegy about Kobe may be the best column he’s ever scribed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

Petroglyphs, scribed into desert rocks thousands of years ago, alert him to the human pasts of places deemed unpeopled “wastes” by the first white men to apprehend them.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020

Not long ago, I spent a day following Lynden Lee as he scribed at a Massachusetts General Hospital primary-care practice.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018

He never de- 79:21 scribed disease, so far as can be learned from the Gospels,         but he healed disease.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Who is taking care of the patients all those scribing doctors aren’t seeing?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018

I would get John Bradley to start scribing out the entire books that George R.R.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2017

Two decades after that first visit, Magdalen’s 15th-century cloisters, decorated with coats of arms and gargoyles, looked every bit as inspiring as I remembered, though deserted, the scholars no doubt scribing upstairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2016

The important thing is that the Supreme Court has now closed the circle it was scribing with Bilski and Mayo vs.

From Forbes ● Jun. 19, 2014

Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy


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