RED-PENCILED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

red-penciled

verb

past tense of red-pencil

as in amended

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 censored

to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

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York was initially charged with engaging in prostitution, but prosecutors amended that to disorderly conduct.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Wicks ultimately voted in favor of the bill after policy implications to housing construction were amended out.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of amended

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An earlier version of this story was corrected to describe the suspect as the former head of foreign, not domestic, intelligence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
But many of Lamont’s fellow Democrats say the fiscally moderate governor has over-corrected, saving too aggressively, to the detriment of health care, education, social services and other core programs.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of corrected

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Questions and answers have been shortened for brevity and focus.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Her campaign has been relatively free of major bumps since an appeals court in July cleared her path for a fourth run at the presidency, with a ruling that shortened a ban on seeking public office handed down to Le Pen for embezzling public funds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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Researchers showed respondents two versions of the same video, one edited by a human, one by AI, without telling them which was which, and asked for a blind preference before revealing anything about how either was made.

— Muhammad Usman Qamar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
In some memes in recent weeks, the photo has become so over-edited that the character's glistening face is slicker, darker and even more uncanny.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026

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