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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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  • Longer messages mean slower communication, so people who study error-correcting codes devise more elaborate schemes to minimize the redundancy in the transmissions while maximizing the number of errors that can be corrected.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But Lemon’s intensity and approach to correcting mistakes encourage the coaching staff.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of correcting
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  • The idea is to connect engineering, manufacturing and inspection through the same digital model, potentially reducing errors and shortening the time needed to move from design to hardware.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
  • And today's best estimates of the amount of water on the moon are about 30 times less than a billion tons, shortening the time to water exhaustion by the same factor.
    — Martin Elvis, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • 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
  • Make a case for reforming Social Security and Medicare to preserve it for current and future generations.
    — Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 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
  • Competing with YouTube Still, Bajaria isn't interested in completely rewriting the rulebook.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 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 23 Sep. 2026.

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