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redacts

  • present tense form
    of redact (3rd person singular).
    redact
    verb (used with object)
    to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.

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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 appeal redacts their names, indentifying jurors only by their numbers from the trial.

From Seattle Times Sep. 5, 2023

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

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2023

Which duty done, D'Orleans returns in from the gate; redacts his Protest, in the face of an applauding Parlement, an applauding France; and so—has cut his Court-moorings, shall we say?

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle