transcribe
verb (used with object)
to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
is transcribing
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present progressiveof transcribe (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“In many ways, the body is transcribing that for me.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
Stuck at home just outside Charlotte, Dillon is transcribing four or five times a week for multiple hours.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020
Why do journalists need to go through the proper channels to reach out to her so she can correct the record when all they’re doing is transcribing and reporting her own social media posts?
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2018
The whaling museum is transcribing and digitising its own logbooks, as well as original data sources from the Nantucket Historical Association, Martha’s Vineyard museum, Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, and the New Bedford free public library.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2015
Where, for example, he is transcribing Nicholas and another historian of the period, he succeeds in presenting a picture of Herod that has a certain psychological value.
From Josephus by Norman Bentwich
