How to Use scrivener in a Sentence
scrivener
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Then again, the scrivener is a lost profession.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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Dillon argued that what Smith did was a scrivener’s error and doesn’t rise to the level of fraud.
—Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
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Specifically, the immigration judge invoked the narrow legal doctrine of the scrivener’s error.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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But in Doerfler’s estimation, the absence of a deportation order in Abrego Garcia’s case is no scrivener’s error.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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To join Chanel and the Women’s Prize Trust in celebrating the launch of their new Originators program, a guest list filled with scriveners, storytellers, and Substackers turned out in droves.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2026
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