How to Use redact in a Sentence

redact

verb
  • Her name was redacted in court records.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The name of the person who woke him up was redacted.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • Most of the other names on that list are redacted.
    Stephen Fowler, NPR, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The name of the person who sent the email was redacted.
    David Ingram, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His name is redacted in the court filing.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The rest of the sentence has been redacted.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 21 May 2026
  • Parts of the image have been redacted.
    Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • When asked what kind, his answer was redacted from the video tape.
    CBS News, 1 June 2017
  • Even forty-five years on, lines, paragraphs, and even whole pages are redacted.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Stines takes a few steps backwards before the video is redacted.
    Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • The person's name was redacted.
    Gary Grumbach, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The disclosure form is then sent to the judge, who can decide what to redact.
    Coulter Jones, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the names are redacted; however some are not.
    James Hill, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The cause of death was redacted from the affidavit.
    Kansas City Star, 11 May 2026
  • Most of the specifics have been redacted by the city, including the sender’s name.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 May 2026
  • Parts of it are redacted, so none of the 49 people killed that night can be seen.
    Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2017
  • The names of the victim and the other boy were redacted from the report.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Think about how much time that is to redact all three of those videos, 180 minutes times six.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • His name is redacted in the affidavit.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • The value of that contract was redacted.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Parts of the interview were redacted due to an order by the judge.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Long portions of the video are either blacked out or with the audio redacted.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The names of those who were injured are redacted in the affidavit.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2025
  • What didn’t get much attention is the portion of the memo that was redacted.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The amount of child support agreed upon was redacted from the court filing.
    Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The location of where the drug buy was scheduled to take place were redacted.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2026
  • The names of people with Epstein on that flight were redacted.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Some are photos of women or girls that were already redacted.
    Elliott Ramos, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The names and ages of both victims were redacted in both copies of the indictment.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The names of the sites were redacted in the copy of the suit made public Thursday.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024

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