Example Sentences

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Mr. Neil began his professional writing career with the Spectator, a local free weekly, and began working for The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., as a copy editor in 1989.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

In my usual job as a copy editor for this newspaper, I tend to cast a skeptical eye on a writer’s use of the word “ecstatic.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024

The copy editor at Harcourt kept filling the margins of the galley proofs with questions: ‘How can it be before Europe but after Paris?’

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman