copy editor
- a variation of copyeditor.
- a word derived from copy-edit.
Example Sentences
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A retired Los Angeles Times copy editor began researching the Black Dahlia murder case in the late 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Before joining the Journal, he was weekend editor and a senior copy editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 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’re a copy editor right now, obviously A.I. is a huge threat.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 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
