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
Verb
  • Now the village is discussing amending the village’s code to insert guidelines on commercial filming/photography.
    — Steve Zalusky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Supervisors Nate Miley and Haubert said the poll was a good start toward understanding the community’s interest in amending Measure D, but the county needed to build greater consensus before attempting to ease its land-use restrictions.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 4 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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  • Sentry’s team helps pinpoint answers to these concerns, such as assisting hospitality companies in identifying and correcting likely sources of slip-and-fall incidents.
    — Sentry Insurance, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The county executive’s chartered responsibilities include overseeing the county’s municipal departments, correcting errors in tax assessments, executing certain contracts, upholding the county charter and representing the county in general.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of correcting
Verb
  • Programs can respond by shortening the distance between earning and redeeming.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • This allows new chip layouts to be fabricated immediately after design completion, eliminating the need to manufacture masks for every design iteration and significantly shortening research and development cycles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • The agency’s leaders are also reforming practices in its two shelters, following an outside review released last month.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Kim Farrington, an accountant who has touted her work reforming federal spending to save taxpayer dollars, highlights tackling the national debt and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse as her top priority.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of reforming
Verb
  • But this summer, the fashion crowd is rewriting the narrative.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Officials in DeKalb County are rewriting the county's zoning code.
    — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 30 July 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 11 Aug. 2026.

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