1
as in to amend
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print
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as in to censor
to remove objectionable parts from
a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness
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And Cipriani later amended his complaint adding Paramount, David and Larry Ellisons, RedBird Capital and Paramount’s board of directors as defendants.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026 -
The Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996, directed the EPA to publish the Contaminant Candidate List every five years.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Our children’s academic curricula will be actually censored.—
Aidin Vaziri,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Mar. 2026
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Our children’s academic curricula will actually be censored.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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The full inspections show how each establishment has corrected or is working to correct any remaining violations.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
2 Apr. 2026
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Violations were corrected later, records show.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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The Temperature Drop That Triggers Sleep A 2019 meta-analysis of 13 trials found roughly 10 minutes in warm water one to two hours before bed shortened time to fall asleep by about nine minutes.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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Climate change complicates forecasting All this is playing out against the backdrop of climate change, which is shortening winters and turning up the heat.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Unfortunately, the only way to reform Colorado’s arcane property tax system will be by citizen initiative or constitutional amendments submitted directly to the voters.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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Through it all, the 55-year-old former Fed governor exudes a confidence that is the antithesis of Harry Truman's paradigmatic two-handed economist — qualities that seemed to attract the president and might be essential in his effort to reform the staid Federal Reserve.—
Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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Sarian hopes the sale of the unneeded parking lot land will remedy some of Vista’s current financial woes, which became a problem shortly after AHS acquired the hospital at the northwest corner of Glen Flora Avenue and Sheridan Road from Quororum Health Corp in July of 2023.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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That land has no sewers, and the company is seeking state aid to remedy that.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Red-pencil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-pencil. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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