RED-PENCILING Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

red-penciling

verb

present participle of red-pencil

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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Encinitas began amending its municipal codes related to bike usage in June 2023 after e-bike use began soaring.

— Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Republican lawmakers acknowledged shortcomings in their proposals to eliminate the income tax and raise the bar for amending the state Constitution.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of amending

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Aguirre’s interviews are carefully edited with bleeps, censoring the ‘cabr—s’, the ‘hijos de p—s’ and ‘carambas’.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Vance asserted that the 2020 election was rigged due to tech companies censoring information.

— Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026

Definition of censoring

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All of this can lead to higher repair costs, not to mention shortening your vehicle’s lifespan.

— Molly Burford, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
By shortening the standard settlement cycle from two business days to one, the industry aims to reduce risk and improve the use of capital and resources.

— Federico Sendra, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of shortening

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For organizers who gathered, the demand goes beyond reforming how the technology is used.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
In parallel, the United Kingdom is also seeking to accelerate its own regulatory processes by reforming its framework for rare disease therapies.

— Kimberley Jane Barnes, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of reforming

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Rather than juggling separate tools for writing, editing, grammar checking, AI detection, and rewriting, UmanWrite brings everything into a single platform.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
McKinsey's research on how AI is rewriting banking illustrates the gap.

— Nicole Casperson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of rewriting

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