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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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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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Disparate impact also lives under the Fair Housing Act, a separate law the Bureau cannot rewrite by amending Regulation B.
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Michelle Ford, a soil scientist and wildlife biologist who owns EcoMaps, said Silverman over the past two months had addressed her concerns about wetlands protection by amending plans.
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Professors are censoring themselves in lectures and rewriting syllabuses.
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Residents began self-censoring in private chats and deleting posts out of fear of reprisal.
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Cut to Johnson attempting an overhead serve with his pickleball partner Candace (Mary Steenburgen) halting him mid leap and correcting his serve to underhand.
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Sometimes, the market is just correcting an ownership imbalance.
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The changes allow some large IPOs to become eligible for the Nasdaq-100 after just 15 trading days, dramatically shortening what had historically been a far longer waiting period.
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In plain terms, Tau Scaling asks whether performance gains can come not only from shrinking the node, but from shortening the distance data travels, reducing resistance and capacitance, and coordinating hardware and software around latency.
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States like Georgia and Oregon have shown what aligned policy can accomplish, linking child care access to postsecondary persistence and reforming subsidy programs to recognize that school and work are not mutually exclusive.
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Weiser goes a step further than Bennet in supporting reform and has pledged to lead the charge on reforming the spending cap.
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Professors are rewriting assignments and grading rubrics.
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Long before luxury resorts became synonymous with Las Vegas, Steve Wynn was busy rewriting the city’s playbook.
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“Red-penciling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-penciling. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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