redline
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Its attorneys now use AI to redline new versions of contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
Kazakhstan's Rybakina, whose power from the baseline is among the very best when she finds her groove, continued to redline in the second set.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
A lone rider leaves the redline at Union Station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
“AI must be guided in a direction that is conducive to the progress of humanity, so there should be a redline in AI development — a red line that must not be crossed,” without elaborating.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
They were past redline now, flying at 220 miles per hour and in danger of ripping the plane’s wings off.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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“L.A. has been redlined by the majority of the investment community,” apartment developer Ari Kahan of California Landmark Group said in October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
Weber’s métier is working in industrial corridors in redlined neighborhoods helping communities of color heal from the effects of environmental and social ills, often a lengthy and collaborative process.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Today, many redlined communities across the state experience the worst air pollution, some on the fringes or within industrial zones that support airports, warehouses and industries like fossil fuel refineries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Recently, researchers showed that historically redlined areas have higher levels of air pollution than those that received higher ratings, and similar disparities affect many cities across the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
If you can get no information at all from automobile sources, you can make use—with great caution—of bicycle road maps, of the maps rather than the redlined routes.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
It brings to mind not just dressing and African-American fashions, but also the historically peripatetic nature of black communities due to the oppression of Jim Crow and redlining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Given the nation’s economic disparities, there’s been particular concern about a dispersal of Altadena’s long-standing Black community, which is focused on the town’s west side, in part due to a history of segregation and redlining.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
In the 1960s and 70s, North Lake Avenue in Altadena served as the primary east-west dividing line for redlining practices, according to the Altadena Historical Society.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Insurance brokers who help affordable housing providers have been redoubling their efforts to overcome stereotypes, if not outright redlining discrimination, that historically tended to elevate rates in low-income neighborhoods.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
He leaned forward to hunch over his desk, and ignoring Scott, he went back to redlining another writer's story.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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