BLUE-PENCILING Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

blue-penciling

verb

present participle of blue-pencil

as in deleting

to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it military censors blue-penciled any remarks that could possibly be deemed critical

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Finally, under Performance, the photo cleaner offered to free up storage space by deleting duplicate photos and photos that, while not exact duplicates, are very similar.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
The incidents range in scope from agents escaping their sandboxes and gaining access to the internet to agents deleting conversations so humans can't monitor their activity, Mills said.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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Companies will be required to provide a simple, accessible way to cancel a subscription through the same method used to sign up — making canceling as easy as signing up.

— Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
The Stanford researchers estimated that sellers can roughly double revenue because of consumer inertia, when people forget or put off canceling, and cancellation friction, when ending a subscription takes too much time or effort.

— Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026

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