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as in writers
a person who creates a written work
the roomful of unsung scriveners that it takes to churn out a weekly sitcom
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as in scribes
one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts
the details of the contract were worked out by a lawyer, I being involved with it merely as a scrivener
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Noun
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And this, this show, has been such an incredible journey, and our writers' room, God bless you all.—
Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
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New York writers didn’t turn up in Manhattan (Kansas) every week.—
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On the television side, the scribes sold Misfit City to HBO Max, with Boom!—
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Catullus’s poems disappeared from the Western canon for centuries (likely because medieval Christian scribes avoided copying lurid pagan texts) yet were rediscovered and reprinted in the Renaissance, and are still alive millennia later, when would-be censors are long forgotten.—
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Such op-eds are popping up with the same anti-family messages delivered by different authors.—
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The study’s authors further stated that the poison found in the artifacts would not have killed prey instantly, but rather slowed prey down, thereby making the animal easier to catch.—
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“Scriveners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriveners. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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