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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.

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Examples

  • I've been up to my ears in copyedits on the KY Anthology all day.

    NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN!!! 2007

  • The manuscript with the copyedits is sent to you and you check over it, approve the copyeditor's changes, make changes of your own (but not too many) add lines, take lines out, etc.

    March 9th, 2005 tanzle 2005

  • As I think I might have mentioned, the copyedits were a nightmare, and just when I thought it was done and dusted, I’m currently wading my way through yet another set of page proofs that contain strange additional bits of text, the origins of some of which are a mystery to me.

    May 2008 2008

  • As I think I might have mentioned, the copyedits were a nightmare, and just when I thought it was done and dusted, I’m currently wading my way through yet another set of page proofs that contain strange additional bits of text, the origins of some of which are a mystery to me.

    The Constant Journey 2008

  • And I just finished copyedits on both Bone Magic — book seven in the OW world, and Etched in Silver, a OW novella for the Inked anthology.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Nalini Singh 2009

  • And I just finished copyedits on both Bone Magic — book seven in the OW world, and Etched in Silver, a OW novella for the Inked anthology.

    Guest Author - Yasmine Galenorn Nalini Singh 2009

  • Never got a contract, just a set of copyedits in June 2008 (hey-o, a year ago!).

    Half and half pabba 2009

  • I will charge (a very reasonable) $50/page, for which authors will receive copyedits and a generalized critique.

    "The needle sticks and the penny drops." greygirlbeast 2010

  • (And I will undoubtedly be a wreck by the time I get my first copyedits.) (Reply to this) sartorias

    kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009

  • And then maybe write that last book review column, and look at some copyedits, and then maybe spin while I listen to the last story and a half in METAtropolis, which I am finally getting around to listening to a year or so after it came out.

    if it was up to me we wouldn't even stop to sleep matociquala 2010

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