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red-penciling

verb

present participle of red-pencil
1
as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print

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2
as in censoring
to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red-penciling
  1. amending
  2. censoring
  3. correcting
  4. shortening
  5. reforming
  6. rewriting
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  • The city’s planning director said amending the zoning code to allow data centers in Sacramento would require multiple public hearings.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The complex legislation — added by gutting and amending a bill known as Senate Bill 492 — was introduced less than three days before the legislative session was to end Monday.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of amending
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  • Earlier in the week, Kraft allegedly led a pressure campaign to force the Seattle rapper off Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour, igniting a firestorm of backlash from artists and fans accusing Kraft of censoring Macklemore’s free speech.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Beijing, for its part, maintains a series of firewalls that—in addition to surveilling and censoring the Chinese people—protect Chinese networks from American offensive intrusions.
    — ANNE NEUBERGER, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of censoring
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  • Buck Showalter made a living off course-correcting teams that had no culture or identity.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of immediately correcting or reassuring your child, get curious first.
    — Anahi Collado, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of correcting
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  • Moving those activities later into the day could create new operational challenges while shortening the prime hours that many skiers prefer.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Newsom also signed Senate Bill 186, which would strengthen the current tax incentive program by shortening the payout schedule for cash refunds and increasing the total refundable amount of unused tax credits.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • The decade-plus of legal oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, criminal justice experts have said, offers insight into the difficulties of reforming law enforcement agencies charged with endemic racial bias.
    — Yana Kunichoff, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Now, there’s a growing coalition trying to revive condo construction in California by reforming a decades-old law that housing advocates and developers say has put a stranglehold on condo development.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of reforming
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  • Crypto-agility has often been described as the ability to swap algorithms without rewriting applications.
    — Evgeny Gervis, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The reforms center on breaking veto-heavy decision deadlocks, bringing poorer economies into global supply chains, cracking down on unfair state subsidies and rewriting outdated 20th-century trade rules.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of rewriting
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“Red-penciling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-penciling. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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