Today’s “Word of the Day” is “scribe” and it is a noun meaning “journalist, reporter, writer, author.
Example Sentence: Ministers rightly want to keep government secrets from foreign enemies. But this urge should not be at the cost of a vigorous free press. To meet the threat from hostile nations, the UK government proposes longer jail sentences for journalists. This is unlikely to stop Russia or China, where dissenting scribes are routinely locked up. Instead, it is likely to lend legitimacy to those regimes that encourage a climate of contempt for journalism and criminalise opposition.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on official secrets: plans that undermine democracy and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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