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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
The fragments, written in ancient Greek by what was thought to be an Egyptian scribe and his teacher, are the oldest existing version of the poem arranged into a book.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Wherever the sleuth goes, the scribe is sure to follow—if about five steps behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Or as one scribe put it, the school didn’t want to be dwarfed by “a gigantic breakfast side dish.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
Its southern scribe appended this note: Findegil, King’s Writer, finished this work in IV 172.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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
Exquisitely inked manuscript records of these marks still exist: lines and crosses scribed across diagrammatic beaks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
Fillet.—Finish against intersection of floor and wall with neat 1½ in. quarter-round fillet, scribed to wall and floor and nailed to floors.
From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis
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
I said incredulously, thinking of the pale, quiet students who worked in the Archives, sorting, scribing, and fetching books.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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