as in to delete
to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information
Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records. The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released.
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Recent Examples of redact
My decision to redact portions of the novel came very very very late in the process of editing the book and just seemed right.
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Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Police said in their report that Leatherwood made an admission, but his statements were redacted.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Additional information was heavily redacted.
—Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
Many details are redacted due to discussions of legal strategy.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Police said in their report that Leatherwood made an admission, but his statements were redacted.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Additional information was heavily redacted.
—Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
Many details are redacted due to discussions of legal strategy.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
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However, that has all changed over the past few days as reports from outlets including , and uncovered past messages from Platner written on the message board site Reddit – some of which have been deleted as Platner seeks to distance himself from them.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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In early 2022, not long before the suit with Giuffre was settled, his social media accounts were deleted, and on his page on the royal family’s website, his duties were changed to be listed in the past tense.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Private equity firms are showing a great interest in buying into the NFL — the biggest and most profitable sports league in the world — and are boosting values by setting a floor on valuations and erasing concerns other limited partners may have had over liquidity, CNBC reported.—
Michael Ozanian,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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Slowly but surely, the legal obstacles to taking games overseas have been removed over the past few years.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Redact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redact. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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