red-penciling

present participle of red-pencil

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Though the White House technically lost a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press this spring, the president was still able to spin it as a win for his base by amending the way that all wire publications were included in the routine press pool rotations.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • As reported by Reuters, Anutin's election was the result of a political agreement with the progressive opposition People's Party, the largest bloc in parliament, which was convinced by his promise to hold a referendum on amending the constitution and call a general election within four months.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The film was finished in 2019, but the Bolsonaro government withheld funding for its distribution, effectively censoring the movie.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Within the self-censoring limits of the genre, Eisgruber has sensible things to say, maybe too sensible.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Uber was born out of correcting a daily annoyance, which scaled a $203 billion company.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Hardware needs shrink dramatically By virtually eliminating one of the two main error types, Alice & Bob’s cat qubits allow for more efficient error-correcting codes that require far fewer physical qubits.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For adult projects, Alloy works with the writer to develop a full manuscript, and Morgenstein finds this step a way of shortening the process.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There is reason to think there could be room for negotiation on extending or reforming the credits.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There is little action that could be forced upon these platforms with today’s Section 230 protections for third-party content, but there is growing Republican support for reforming, or even repealing, the law.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Put it all together, and the larger story is that wealth managers and GPs are rewriting the rules for how money moves around the world.
    Henry Fernandez, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The 7-foot-3 unicorn, still in the early stages of rewriting how basketball is played, just made a move few in the world can.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Red-penciling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-penciling. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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