paragrapher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of paragrapher
1815–25; paragraph ( def. ) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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An American lady paragrapher writes with malice that she is always able to go to sleep at her customary hour when reading Howells.
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The ambush was done skillfully: one anonymous paragrapher wrote slyly that a reader "has been for several days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters" of Hawkins' book.
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For balance, Torchsinger Libby Holman was named vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Brubaker, wife of a New Yorker paragrapher, executive secretary.
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So rare is the professional paragrapher that Vaughan is occasionally credited with being the last of the breed.
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Thither he returned in the spring of 1876, and the Evening Journal, being by this time consolidated with the Times, he became an editorial writer and paragrapher on the hyphenated publication.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason
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