How to Use redacted in a Sentence

redacted

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  • The records shared by all three were often heavily redacted, missing details such as where incidents occurred and who was shot.
    Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the records stemming from the case have been gradually released over the years, though many documents remained redacted or sealed.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Two people whose name appears in the records have been given additional time to make arguments to the court as to why their names should stay redacted.
    David B. Caruso, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Some victims’ names remain redacted due to the sensitive nature of the crimes, according to court filings.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The sheriff's office reports are heavily redacted, blacking out many of the names of the staff members who were arrested.
    Katherine Kokal, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The identities of the four witnesses remained redacted from the documents sent to The Bee this month.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Cuomo says that is too slow and the records are still redacted, with one of the six transcripts having more redactions than the version on the AG’s website!
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • They were shown a short, redacted clip of the incident, but a judge's ruling last week allowed the sheriff's department to share the full footage with family members.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 3 May 2021
  • Now they’ve simply been handed over to the public, along with enormous quantities of semi-redacted material spanning decades and provenances.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Village of Sag Harbor and Timberlake's lawyers later reached an agreement to release a redacted version.
    Gma Team, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026

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