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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Congress reacted to that ruling by amending the act to create the incidental take program.

— Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Recently, the Illinois Register proposed amending the administrative code to update the definitions of the various alcohol categories solely by their production process — not their alcohol content.

— Adam Hoffer, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 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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Both magnesium and vitamin D supplements are most helpful when correcting a deficiency.

— Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 13 July 2026
Long before ambient documentation arrived, patients were already reconciling medication lists, catching referral failures, correcting demographic mistakes, and trying to make sense of conflicting recommendations from different specialists.

— Demetri Giannikopoulos, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of correcting

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Engineers could move more quickly from sketches to testable 3D designs, reducing development costs, shortening design cycles, and exploring a wider range of ideas without creating large amounts of new training data.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court cleared a path for the 57-year-old Le Pen to run by shortening a ban on seeking public office that had spelled possible doom for her ambitions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of shortening

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But Warsh has focused instead on reforming the central bank’s public messaging — mostly by demanding less of it.

— Benn Steil, Washington Post, 9 July 2026
When House Republican Leader Paul Ryan proposed reforming Medicare, opponents ran a television ad portraying him pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a cliff.

— Jessica Riedl, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Definition of reforming

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Facing unpredictable tariffs, fleet disruptions, and intense competition, the company is entering a new era of reglobalization, where automated belt systems, edge robotics, and new trade patterns are rewriting the rules of global supply chains.

— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Let’s commit to pausing tearing each other down before ripping up and rewriting our stories and objects.

— Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2026

Definition of rewriting

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