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).
were transcribing
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past progressiveof transcribe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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News first broke in April that employees at Amazon were transcribing users’ Alexa recordings.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
All these MSS., even the best of them, give me the impression of being copied by very unintelligent scribes, who had but little idea of the meaning of the words which they were transcribing.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
She followed, with Wheaton, the arc which the others were transcribing.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
She will give you catalogues of furniture and raiment, with short scenes interspersed, for all the world as if she were transcribing from carefully taken notes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various
