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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
copyedit .
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Examples
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I also spoke with the editor about the excessively copyedited ms., but didn't actually get any work done on it.
"It knows not pride or vanity. It cares not about your dreams." greygirlbeast 2009
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At least not until the CEM (copyedited ms.) arrives, and hopefully that won't be until early April.
"To defile and to blister." greygirlbeast 2009
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How come Publishers Weekly's book-publishing articles are so staid while its Comics Week articles are so opinionated and lively (and poorly copyedited)?
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Karen Zuercher copyedited an early version of the manuscript and made it readable.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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The book was typset and copyedited by intelligentrix, who is a goddess, and without whom I would have been utterly lost.
This Is My Letter To The World yuki_onna 2010
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In fact, with sales galleys needed so far in advance of the final book, ARCs are most often made from the first pass of galleys, which haven't even been proofread yet, though the manuscript will have been copyedited before being set in galleys.
Publishers and bloggers Roger Sutton 2009
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The manuscript was copyedited by a reasonably sharp-eyed colleague who performs that function for the university where I work.
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How come Publishers Weekly's book-publishing articles are so staid while its Comics Week articles are so opinionated and lively (and poorly copyedited)?
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Karen Zuercher copyedited an early version of the manuscript and made it readable.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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However, given what I know & like about Jay, I may well be * less* objective about his work than a reviewer who copyedited a book could be ... but the former is apparently not worth mentioning, while the latter is apparently a horrible ethical breech.
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