How To Use Proofreader In A Sentence
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When the chapters were reissued in America, the proofreader, warned by the presence of numerous other gross misprints, naturally corrected the meaningless "lilt" to the obvious and natural "tilt.
The Booklover and His Books
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A caret is a proofreader's symbol, indicating where words or letters are to be inserted.
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As for the hawk-eyed youngster, she says she wants to grow up to be a proofreader.
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From previous comment – I meant to say (but my clicker is faster than my proofreader) With my kids, we talk about … if they talked about it on their own, that would be awesome and I would not need to parent them!!
Hello, Princess | Her Bad Mother
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There are whole departments devoted to media buying and planning, client services (often called AE's for Account Executives), studio production, art buying, strategic services, human resources, quality assurance (proofreaders), accounting, and traffic.
Buzz, Balls & Hype
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When the story is in type, an impression, or _proof_, is taken of it, and this proof, still called copy, comes back to the copyreader or the proofreader for the correction of typographical errors.
Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
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Even when authors carefully check their work, and editors edit it and proofreaders proofread it, things go wrong.
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Pearl put him in his place with his own sonnet which begins, ‘Proofreaders, tremble; and poor typists, quail; / For R - N, lynx-eyed, thunders on your trail ’, and proceeds to show why books deserve better.
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Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers.
James Joyce
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The Keter benefited from a larger staff of human proofreaders and the additional assistance of computer collation which was able to detect many errors that even the very conscientious human team had failed to ferret out.
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Many who were less talented at writing entered the world of publishing as editors, calligraphers, copyists, or proofreaders.
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As a young office worker, then a proofreader, he was attracted to anarchism before becoming a syndicalist.
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Poetic Obituaries: Working as the sole writer, editor, illustrator, platemaker, compositor, proofreader and pressman, he Joseph Low published limited editions of short stories and poetry, illustrated with his own wood and linoleum cuts.
Poetic Obituaries: Working as the sole writer,
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I was paid (through an adult intermediary because of child labor laws) as a technical proofreader for Chemical Abstracts (knowing an o from an omicron AND knowing the molecule in question was a key).
On Teens, and the Fact Their Writing Sucks « Whatever
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I don't know whether to count this as one or two errors by the soi-disant ‘official’ proofreader of San Bloggio, but this time she has stuck her big toe in the light socket.
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She's been a pastry chef, a whorehouse receptionist, and a proofreader on Wall Street.
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I can't remember how to spell myself anymore because although I was once a competent proofreader I've spent a lot of time on the intarwebs since then and have almost grown accustomed to pregnate women with dialating cervices so how many Ls there are in travelling is beyond me.
So so tired
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The proofreader then corrects the text and the editor looks through it again and makes the final changes.
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She can write "stet" as well as I can ( "stet" is a proofreaders mark, Latin for "let it stand," and when one wishes to disregard a copyeditor's mark, one writes "stet" in the margin of the page.
One of those WoW things.
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Like a proofreader searching for a typo in a book, the lab must read each exon to see if it contains a mutation.
Genetics and Alagille Syndrome
