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redact

[ri-dakt] / rɪˈdækt /
VERB
bowdlerize
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While your mother’s bank may decide to redact certain sensitive transaction details, it cannot refuse to disclose all accounting.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

According to a report by the Washington Post, Patel has directed agents in the bureau’s San Francisco office to redact the case files for public release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026

Griffin also confirmed that the large bundle of documents released last month had been temporarily removed from the government website "to redact some additional information".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

The Justice Department deployed hundreds of attorneys to review the millions of pages for review, giving them instructions on how to redact and determine whether files needed to be released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

"The Rédacteur vill not redact long, hein?" he said presently.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

Officials have said they would release materials as the department reviews and redacts them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

The report redacts details of the now-deleted post, from 16 November 2023, which the BBC has seen.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

The report also redacts the names of some members of the hierarchy who helped protect them.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

In Freedom of Information Act requests, the Department of Agriculture redacts anything that could reveal the location of an agricultural operation.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

If he is applauded, he prospers and redacts; if he is hissed, he goes his ways.'

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

"I think we had a chance to say the words we wanted to say in our impact statement, but now I've been told they've redacted my last paragraph, which felt like our only chance."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Several areas of the report were redacted, including statements from the brothers about what transpired as they called 911.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A second draft of the letter, dated March 4, contained altered language providing that the voter information would be “transferred” to HSI, with one exception: Voters’ party affiliation would be redacted, if possible, it said.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Friday's judgement said that while plans submitted to the UK authorities were redacted and not all rooms were identified, there was "no possible ambiguity as to the nature of the intended use of the premises".

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

She'd seen it in the library book before it was redacted.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

In a statement, Inspector General William M. Blier said his “preliminary objective is to evaluate the DOJ’s processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

After Congress passed a law forcing their release, Bondi presided over that release — amid criticisms she was slow-walking it, withholding certain records and overly redacting others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

Of those who remain, roughly 1,000 special agents and others are said to be focused on redacting materials related to the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

What they’ve done is all these haphazard redactions, redacting a bunch of things they’re not supposed to redact.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

For there is much consulting about it, and redacting of it; Polish Majesty himself very busy.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle




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