scrivener

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Recent Examples of scrivener Zach Thomas Woods infuses zany comic energy into Edgar, a young Scottish lawyer and scrivener (a copier of documents), sternly religious but desperately horny and infatuated with Ruth. Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023 The name of the candidate omitted in the Voter Guide is highlighted in red to emphasize the scrivener’s error. chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021 Her narrator’s final gesture, transforming herself into a piece of half-living art, echoes the odd and combative passivity of Herman Melville’s Bartleby, a scrivener who suddenly, inexplicably, refuses to perform his duties. Alexandra Kleeman, Vanities, 2 July 2018 But the scrivener simply repeated the same five words, with no explanation for his conduct. The Economist, 26 May 2018 In the short story by Herman Melville from which our new column takes its name, Bartleby was a scrivener—a dying art, nowadays. The Economist, 26 May 2018 In 1727, when Benjamin Franklin was twenty-one, he and a few friends—among them a scrivener, a joiner, and two cobblers—formed a conversation club called the Junto. Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2014 Almost always, Shakespeare’s plays become mirrors when held up to the moments in which they are produced; Ralph Crane the scrivener was only the first among many annotators. Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017 The difference between a merchant’s handwriting and a scrivener’s is clear enough, the one scrawled and bold, the other neat and careful. Tim Parks, New York Times, 11 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrivener
Noun
  • Every Thursday during the regular season, Tribune baseball writers will provide an update on what happened — and what’s ahead — for the Cubs and White Sox.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • Set to John Kander and Fred Ebb's — the legendary duo behind Chicago and Cabaret — award-winning score and a book by Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Condon's adaptation draws inspiration from the Broadway musical and the acclaimed 1976 novel of the same name by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig.
    Mekishana Pierre Updated, EW.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Many scribes are also multilingual, enabling providers to overcome language barriers and better serve a more diverse patient population.
    Rakhee Langer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The ingredient arrived in Christian monasteries, where scribes would dissolve it in water to create ink or paint.
    Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Writing at length is to me always an act of learning and changing, in which authors can strive towards something more dimensional than a platitude on a placard.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
  • This sounds like guesswork derived from pop psychology, since the authors didn’t point to any actual research to validate their conclusions about masking.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The journalist’s tone was snarky, but there were some direct quotes from my father’s amanuenses.
    Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • By Hillary Kelly The story goes that John Milton—who went blind in his early 40s—composed 20 lines of Paradise Lost in his mind each evening, and then repeated them aloud the next day to an assortment of amanuenses, among them his three daughters.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024

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“Scrivener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrivener. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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