reviser
- a word derived from revise.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
Normally an obsessive outliner and reviser, he began writing a screenplay without any clear idea of where it was going.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
A peremptory order from Washington having stopped every one from reaching Fortress Monroe, he had therefore to do the next best thing as collector and reviser of news.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot
