Examples of scribal in a Sentence
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Those readers included a wide variety of people, from bureaucrats in the capital, to scribal students in the provinces, to kings in Nubia (modern Sudan).
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
The scribes of ancient Egypt were among the world’s first bureaucrats, and while scribal work was considered prestigious and honorable, a career as a scribe was also a way of evading the hardships of other forms of labor.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
There’s no scribal activity.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
The alphabets packaged in a light scroll allowed for literacy to be more broadly accessible to the higher orders of society, rather than just the specialized vocation of a scribal class.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2013
This could simply be the result of changes made in the process of scribal transmission—alterations commonly attend the reproduction of old narratives—but some see it as reason for skepticism.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
In a scribal culture, maintaining some measure of control over ideas and their dissemination was straightforward.
—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
This involved faithfully copying the Middle English text from the medieval manuscript, then editing that text for a modern reader, such as adding modern punctuation and correcting scribal errors.
—Erin Connelly, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
This involved faithfully copying the Middle English text from the medieval manuscript, then editing that text for a modern reader, such as adding modern punctuation and correcting scribal errors.
—Erin Connelly, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
The scribes of ancient Egypt were among the world’s first bureaucrats, and while scribal work was considered prestigious and honorable, a career as a scribe was also a way of evading the hardships of other forms of labor.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
There’s no scribal activity.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
The alphabets packaged in a light scroll allowed for literacy to be more broadly accessible to the higher orders of society, rather than just the specialized vocation of a scribal class.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2013
This could simply be the result of changes made in the process of scribal transmission—alterations commonly attend the reproduction of old narratives—but some see it as reason for skepticism.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
In a scribal culture, maintaining some measure of control over ideas and their dissemination was straightforward.
—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
This involved faithfully copying the Middle English text from the medieval manuscript, then editing that text for a modern reader, such as adding modern punctuation and correcting scribal errors.
—Erin Connelly, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
This involved faithfully copying the Middle English text from the medieval manuscript, then editing that text for a modern reader, such as adding modern punctuation and correcting scribal errors.
—Erin Connelly, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
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“Scribal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scribal. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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