How to Use redact in a Sentence
redact
verb-
Some of the priests’ names in the report have been redacted.
— Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018 -
The names of the victim and the other boy were redacted from the report.
— Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The names of the sites were redacted in the copy of the suit made public Thursday.
— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Names of the callers were redacted from the recordings.
— Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023 -
The details of that case are redacted in the court filing.
— Brent Schrotenboer, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2023 -
The name of the deceased was redacted in the police report.
— John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023 -
The details of the notes were redacted in the arrest report.
— Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024 -
The disclosure form is then sent to the judge, who can decide what to redact.
— Coulter Jones, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021 -
The department in the records redacted both those names.
— Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 21 June 2024 -
Her name was redacted from the records released by UCLA.
— Richard Winton, latimes.com, 8 July 2019 -
The deal required Google to delete or redact billions of records and change the language on the mode’s opening page.
— Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024 -
The names of the officer and the teacher were redacted in a copy of the letter that Yu provided to The Times.
— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The name of the customer is redacted from the documents, along with details of what was found.
— Andy Rose, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The amount of child support agreed upon was redacted from the court filing.
— Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023 -
The child support amount was redacted from the Thursday agreement.
— USA TODAY, 29 June 2023 -
The gender of the victim was redacted from the affidavit.
— Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2019 -
There are some details of the leak that Manning had to redact from the book due to a government review process.
— CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022 -
The Tribune has chosen to redact a reference the teacher made to his own child and his name.
— Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022 -
The person’s name was redacted when the request was shared with the local news outlet KSL.
— Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 June 2023 -
Latson wrote to the parent, whose name is redacted from the emails released by the school district.
— Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019 -
Copies of Shvetz’s filing in court records had an address that was redacted.
— Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020 -
The student names were redacted from the emails obtained by Wood through a records request and provided to The Post.
— Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2023 -
The doctors redacted their names from the letter out of concern for their safety.
— oregonlive, 8 June 2023 -
The details of those rights are redacted in Diamond’s filings with the court.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023 -
Much of the call is redacted, including the caller's name, Austin's symptoms and Austin's name.
— Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024 -
Tom did redact one reference, which had to do with women’s work.
— New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022 -
Many details of the report were redacted by the sheriff’s office.
— Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 6 June 2023 -
The woman’s name was redacted from the tribal statement.
— Terry Tang, The Seattle Times, 9 Jan. 2019 -
The email had the name of the recipient redacted; activists and Schmidt both confirmed the recipient was a university and sent to other universities.
— Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2024 -
Proctor’s interview with investigators was redacted in the file.
— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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