1
as in writers
a person who creates a written work
the prolific penman of dozens of horror stories
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2
as in scribes
one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts
an essay on Jacob Shallus, the penman who inked the United States Constitution
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Noun
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Yet that hardly mattered, since what was forming was a community that the players now liken to the artists and writers of Paris in the ’20s.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025 -
These writers will work under the latest Public Television Freelance Agreement, which the WGA East ratified in December after a lengthy and sometimes contentious negotiation cycle with PBS, narrowly avoiding a strike.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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Writing and agriculture were so closely intertwined that the Sumerian goddess of grain, Nisaba, eventually also became the goddess of writing and patron of scribes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Aug. 2025
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And our senior writers are basically the 1999 Rams offense of football scribes.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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The rapidly changing publishing environment has opened opportunities for players like Publishizer, as well as crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where authors also run preorder campaigns.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The authors of the Cheyava Falls paper spent a year in the peer-review process, and during that time their discovery was publicly known.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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Mustapha comes from a family of Islamic scholars and calligraphers.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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At Shen House, once the lavish residence of Ming dynasty tycoon Shen Wansan, creaking floorboards and moon gates lead to quiet courtyards perfumed with jasmine—while silk threads shimmer in tiny shops, and calligraphers bend over scrolls lit by lantern glow.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Penmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penmen. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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