How to Use proofreader in a Sentence

proofreader

noun

• Some of her most loyal readers have become marketing staff and proofreaders.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
• An embarrassing mistake, a sloppy proofreader, an open door for trolls?
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Myers Park members Shep Robinson and his wife served as proofreaders of his class papers.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 3 May 2018
• The purist in question was Margaret Mutch, a longtime copy editor and proofreader.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• Isadore’s brother David Bloom, meanwhile, worked for a while as a typesetter and proofreader for the Globe.
  — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• He was then hired as a proofreader and translator for The Mexico City News.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• Editors and proofreaders cost money, and these corporations don't want anything taking away from the bottom line.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• That last step was carried out by combining machine learning algorithms from Google with a team of proofreaders at Janelia.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• For example, a master carpenter — who probably makes quite a good wage — may not be ready or able to abandon that mastery and take age-friendly work as a guide or proofreader.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Rita was a long-time volunteer proofreader at Insight for the Blind in Fort Lauderdale.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2019
• Andrei’s mother, Maria Tarkovskaya, also a poet, went to work as a proofreader at a Moscow publishing house.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Walter Mitty, in his most realistic version, is a dull, suburban proofreader.
  — Mariel Wamsley, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2020
• Chicagoan Rose Schreier, 36, a freelance tutor, editor, proofreader and translator, is one such renter.
  — Mary Beth Klatt, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• As a professional proofreader, Fuyuko (Yukino Kishii) spends her days and nights finding and correcting mistakes.
  — Blake Simons, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
• As Yoshio, Yoshiko, and her brother—a former employee of the factory who is rehired as a proofreader—try to get their bearings, the ground continually shifts.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Nancy Depper, a copy editor and proofreader in Oakland, has multiple sclerosis.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in 1978 and was a query proofreader at the magazine for twenty-four years.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• Back at Janelia, after the computers filled in the neuron images, a team of about 50 proofreaders went over the algorithm’s results, looking for erroneous shapes and connections.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
• Kawakami’s novel centers on Fuyuko, a freelance proofreader whose solitary routine shifts after meeting Mitsutsuka, a physics teacher.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
• My career took me from proofreader (a job that doesn’t exist today) to editor in chief to my current role as senior VP and awards editor, which includes extensive film-awards coverage.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• Strand publishes her books, using digital printing, and works with a structural editor, copy editor, proofreader, cover artist, and other professionals.
  — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 17 June 2017
• The result is ostensibly an additional proofreader for potential signs of alien life able to highlight possible anomalies human eyes or even other AI programs might miss.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2023
• Grammarly is basically a competent automatic copy editor and proofreader.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• Vulnerable professions include legal assistants, proofreaders, telephone operators and insurance claims clerks.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 May 2026
• The offices moved yet again, this time uptown to 27th Street, near Madison Square Park, where there was room to run things like a real magazine, with copyeditors and proofreaders, drawing tables and a stat room, and offices for each editor.
  — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
• San Diego Professional Editors Network is a nonprofit association of editors, writers, proofreaders, indexers and other word experts.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023