amanuensis

Example Sentences

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Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bart was an untrained tune savant, a latter-day Irving Berlin; if the songs are so hummable it’s probably because his composition method was built on humming them to an amanuensis.

From New York Times

She became not only Wiggins’ full-time caregiver but her amanuensis and archivist.

From Los Angeles Times

When it comes to John Watson, Holmes’s best friend, amanuensis and sometimes roommate, Holmes criticizes him, deceives him, disappears for years and lets Watson believe him dead.

From New York Times