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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a copy editor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person whose job is to review and correct written material for publication.
Example: "After finishing the manuscript, I sent it to a copy editor for final revisions before printing."
Alternatives: "a manuscript editor" or "a text editor".
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Either Truss needed a copy editor or her copy editor needed a copy editor.
Posing as a copy editor he got the Tribune job.
Andrew Boynton is a copy editor at The New Yorker.
His mother, who is retired, was a copy editor.
"Deep down, I'm a copy editor," he says.
Her mother is a copy editor in Riverdale.
"No, girls, no," a copy editor wrote on one recipe.
(One of the staff members killed in the massacre, a copy editor, was of Muslim origin).
One can do worse than pretend to be a copy editor.
Whatever else she was called, Eleanor Gould was a copy editor.
My father took a job as a copy editor at The Quincy Patriot Ledger.
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