as in deletes
to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information
Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records. The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released.
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Recent Examples of redacts
More detail about what was hit was not available because the Austin automaker redacts narratives in its public reports and did not respond to a request for comment.
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Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
For example, a 96-page police report on a Florida investigation into Epstein in the mid-2000s redacts the names of victims and other details, but leaves many other details in.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
Normally, the Commission redacts or refrains from publishing proprietary details.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
For example, a 96-page police report on a Florida investigation into Epstein in the mid-2000s redacts the names of victims and other details, but leaves many other details in.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
Normally, the Commission redacts or refrains from publishing proprietary details.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redacts
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Carrie makes the internal transfer on the system, moving me from my old role to my new one, ‘accidentally’ deletes the job listing from the website, and then rescues my employee profile from the digital abyss.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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If the option appears, then click Delete and Report Spam, which sends the report to Apple and deletes the message.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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Some see an opportunity for more informed conversations Whether or not the city ultimately erases Chavez's name from public spaces, some think this is an opportunity to highlight other pivotal labor leaders – including Filipino organizer Larry Itliong.—
Kerry Klein,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
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That prescription erases one-quarter of the shortfalls and saves $190 billion over the next decade.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Kawamura makes the point explicit late in the proceedings, with a hallucinatory outdoor sequence that briefly removes us from the train station altogether—easily the story’s most glaring structural and stylistic anomaly.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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This lets gravity do the work and removes dirt and cleaner cleanly.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Redacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redacts. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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