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Recent Examples of blue-pencil Before getting sunk by a turgid love story — the kind of cinematic dead zone Thalberg would have blue-penciled in the screenplay stage — The Last Tycoon provides a good sense of what a producer actually does. Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
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  • The Windows-maker has generated a raft of headlines this time around by confirming its new default and that users should be deleting passwords from their accounts.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • This bill proposes to delete the requirement that the insurance policy name the HOA as an additionally named insured.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
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  • Trump skipped three times during his last presidency (the 2020 affair was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic).
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.
    Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Blue-pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-pencil. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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