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transcribes

verb

present tense third-person singular of transcribe
as in records
to produce a document or record of He transcribed the audio portion of the video for those who were hard of hearing.

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Recent Examples of transcribes When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025 As more 911 calls come in, AI transcribes them on another screen. — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The most expensive Business Plan starts at $20 per month and automatically transcribes up to four hours per conversation for a total of 6,000 monthly transcription minutes. — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transcribes
  1. records
  2. composes
  3. notes
  4. crafts
  5. writes
  6. chronicles
Verb
  • While the technical crew records the president, the producer or reporter coordinates the live feed by phone, taking notes and asking questions.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Federal court records out of North Carolina indicate an Ericka Lomick was convicted in 2011 of mortgage fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of a plea deal.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of records
Verb
  • The man composes his responses with the help of a manual that instructs him on which incoming string of Chinese characters should be answered with which other string of Chinese characters.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Agent authority composes dynamically.
    — Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of composes
Verb
  • Vogue notes the trend appears on jackets made of wool, leather and nylon, spanning heavier winter coats through lighter weatherproof options.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
  • At the same time, as the Burke Museum notes, the low-lying forests of nut and beech trees the birds depended on were cleared for farmland as settlement spread west.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of notes
Verb
  • Director James Marcus Haney crafts a propulsive portrait of Ukrainian youth living on a knife’s edge, denied the certainty of a future in a brutal war of aggression thrust upon them by Russia.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Pleater Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, meanwhile, crafts his textiles in the north London neighborhood of Tottenham.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of crafts
Verb
  • But while the market logged a winning day on almost all fronts, an alarming trend not seen since 1999 was happening under the surface, CNBC's Sean Conlon writes.
    — CJ Haddad, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • And, as Michele Monserrati, a scholar of modern Italian studies, writes, that helps explain why Italian Fascists were obsessed with samurai.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of writes
Verb
  • Elsewhere, the People’s Choice award for best international film went to Simon Stone’s Elsinore, which chronicles the final year in Scottish actor Ian Charleson’s life and stars Olivia Colman, Billie Piper and Johnny Flynn.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The film chronicles his childhood in South Africa and his time in Silicon Valley, and suggests that Musk’s genius is not as an inventor but as an investor.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of chronicles

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