How to Use proofreader in a Sentence

proofreader

noun

• A lot of people have to fail at their jobs for dord to make it in: the writer, the etymolygist, the proofreader.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• Any editor or proofreader would stand for no such thing.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartzy, 1 Aug. 2019
• Myers Park members Shep Robinson and his wife served as proofreaders of his class papers.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 3 May 2018
• Rita was a long-time volunteer proofreader at Insight for the Blind in Fort Lauderdale.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 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
• Photo: Chris Weitz As a teenager, Chris worked for his father as a research assistant and proofreader.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
• In dealing with his charges, Mr. Sargeant makes sure to separate fact from fable, a holdover from his stint as proofreader and fact-checker for Magnificat.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 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
• 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
• Emma Watson is seeking a proofreader for a very unusual job.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Chicagoan Rose Schreier, 36, a freelance tutor, editor, proofreader and translator, is one such renter.
  — Mary Beth Klatt, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• An embarrassing mistake, a sloppy proofreader, an open door for trolls?
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Walter Mitty, in his most realistic version, is a dull, suburban proofreader.
  — Mariel Wamsley, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Nancy Depper, a copy editor and proofreader in Oakland, has multiple sclerosis.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Don’t confuse a developmental editor with a proofreader.
  — Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Grammarly is basically a competent automatic copy editor and proofreader.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024