as in deleted
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
military censors blue-penciled any remarks that could possibly be deemed critical
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There is no mechanism for recovering data once it has been deleted, Flock Safety states on its website.—
Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025 -
Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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So the cash was gone, the credit and debit cards cancelled, and no one had ever cared about the pens or the Polaroid of Andrés.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Cal Poly canceled the final three games of the 1960.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Blue-penciled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-penciled. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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