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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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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
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The senator introduced the SAFE Act last week, an alternative of sorts to the SCORE Act that includes amending the Sports Broadcasting Act to allow schools and conferences to pool media rights.—
Justin Williams,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025 -
Their bill would explicitly designate college athletes as employees of their universities by amending definitions in the National Labor Relations Act and expanding the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) jurisdiction to include both public and private universities.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Libraries and schools that are removing and restricting books for partisan or ideological reasons are censoring them.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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The fight against book bans is entering a new phase, as the number of bans plummets but concerns grow that librarians and teachers, looking to stay out of the fray, are self-censoring.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
7 Oct. 2025
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While Strowman is correcting the historical record from afar, Roman Reigns and Bronson Reed are set for a final confrontation before Crown Jewel.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The concealer, which is our favorite hack for dark circles, comes in 24 shades, including color-correcting options like green and pink.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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The goal is to capture people’s shortening attention spans amid a fractured media landscape, said Kate Trumbull, Domino’s chief marketing officer.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The powder will dry the rash in a way that wiping can’t do, shortening its life cycle.—
Lauren Silbert,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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According to a report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) released Thursday, 87 percent of small businesses support reforming Canada Post in some fashion.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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As for that Palestinian Authority, there is only a vague line about reforming the body.—
Dana El Kurd,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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By centering the bow rather than rewriting it, the house positions Vara not as a relic, but as a living code, one that continues to shape wardrobes and the brand’s own identity nearly 50 years on.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Both women acknowledged that invisibility has long been the default narrative for women after midlife—and both are actively rewriting it.—
Emily Cegielski,
Flow Space,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Red-penciling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-penciling. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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