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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
proofread .
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Examples
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I see so many typo's in CNN articles and Headlines that I don't think anyone proofreads what they post.
First on the Ticker: $22 mln spent on health care TV ads 2009
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Errors such as these both make my day and hurt my soul ... as someone who redacts, edits, and proofreads professional works for a living, I hate seeing others do it so poorly.
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I try to keep the suck factor in my work down around 2.5, but the two previous versions of this issue were scoring somewhere around 9.0, so the quality control department (Snuffles, who proofreads) was gettin 'all up in my face.
News and Comments 2009
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He proofreads all her manuscripts to make sure there are no typos or spellos.
OOTB Tour: Eternal Moon by Rebecca York Nalini Singh 2009
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Anyone who has followed Palin's public record knows she doesn't write any of that anyway, just proofreads to make sure the folksy stuff gets in.
Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference 2009
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I try to keep the suck factor in my work down around 2.5, but the two previous versions of this issue were scoring somewhere around 9.0, so the quality control department (Snuffles, who proofreads) was gettin 'all up in my face.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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She employs 40 people, including more than a dozen contract writers, a brother to whom she gave a kidney and her 90-year-old mother, who still proofreads her work.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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She employs 40 people, including more than a dozen contract writers, a brother to whom she gave a kidney and her 90-year-old mother, who proofreads her work.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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She employs 40 people, including more than a dozen contract writers, a brother to whom she gave a kidney and her 90-year-old mother, who still proofreads her work.
Résumé adviser helps ranks of would-be federal workers navigate applications 2010
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This is because research assistance companies have a streamlined division of labor: one specialized staff researcher writes, another proofreads, a different employee fact checks, and another administrator can manage the whole project.
Kembrew McLeod: A Modest Free Market Proposal for Education Reform Kembrew McLeod 2010
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