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At 22 she interviewed at a local magazine: Instead of clippings, she brought in her high-school yearbook, which she had edited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The raw footage shows she was quoted accurately, although CBS had edited her response by using her most cogent sentence.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

In the wake of the Mother's Day photograph row, there was a brief acknowledgement on social media that Catherine had edited the picture and an apology for the confusion.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

He admitted to the police that he had edited the code, but he said that Zulily knew about it and said “it was part of a testing process,” according to the police report.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023

It had been written by a poet who had lived in Brooklyn, gone to the Brooklyn public schools and, as a young man, had edited The Brooklyn Eagle.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith