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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
Our honorable scribe faces the music about a boneheaded Sixers prediction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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
The upcoming project is set to hit theaters Nov. 19, 2027, and will reunite original “Gremlins” scribe Chris Columbus with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, which produced the first two “Gremlins” films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Sah,” murmured Ranofer automatically, reminded of his lessons with the scribe.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
She rolled over and grabbed my keyboard and scribed on the touchpad with her fingertip.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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
We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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