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[ed-it] / ˈɛd ɪt /


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Producing video once required specialized skills and expensive software; now, she said, “people have TikTok. And the way that you can film and edit there is way easier to learn.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The company on Wednesday announced new features for YouTubers who want to make microdrama series, translate livestreams into Spanish, or use artificial intelligence to help edit scripts and videos, Ben Fritz writes for the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The AI agents had become reliable enough — though prone to errors — to answer their emails, edit documents, and make sales calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Those lines were actually spoken nearly an hour apart, and the BBC has apologized for how the edit was constructed.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Though much of the action is muddled by a superfluity of angles and edits, Sten looks very good whenever we get more than a glimpse of her in motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Tiedemann says that except for the occasional brand deal, she still films and edits all of her posts on Instagram and TikTok herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

While it attracted a huge audience, Verma says young people reshared it with sarcastic and mocking edits, giving it a very different tone from what Modi intended.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Content tagged #backrooms on TikTok exceeds half a million posts, while Instagram fan pages such as @xbackroom, which have hundreds of thousands of followers, further extend the mythology through images, edits and speculative storytelling.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

But Heidi edits herself, running into a girls’ bathroom just beyond.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Her responses have been lightly edited for clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

The same students later alleged in another video that university officials had instructed them what to say, edited the recording and posted it without their consent.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A portion of their conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, appears below.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

I read memos, I wrote memos, I edited other people’s memos.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, wrote that his company’s large language model Claude had found “a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Elsewhere, Mr. Tommasini quotes the same remark from Anderson’s autobiography in two different chapters, a lapse better editing should have caught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The series scored five Emmys for directing, writing, lighting, editing and technical direction at a ceremony earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

He has also juggled other jobs, including lecturing and editing highlights of football matches for YouTube channels, with money raised going back into Premature.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

I ask, using an editing app to clone, enlarge, flip, skew, and totally mutate his picture until he looks like some bizarre freakoid.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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