RED-PENCILING Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

red-penciling

verb

present participle of red-pencil

as in amending

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 censoring

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

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The city’s planning director said amending the zoning code to allow data centers in Sacramento would require multiple public hearings.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
The complex legislation — added by gutting and amending a bill known as Senate Bill 492 — was introduced less than three days before the legislative session was to end Monday.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

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Equal-time rule doesn’t apply, group says The equal-time rule prohibits broadcast stations from censoring or rejecting political ads paid for and sponsored by legally qualified candidates.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Sep. 2026
Earlier in the week, Kraft allegedly led a pressure campaign to force the Seattle rapper off Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour, igniting a firestorm of backlash from artists and fans accusing Kraft of censoring Macklemore’s free speech.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026

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But the decline of regional sports networks has changed the math in baseball, which is now actively considering shortening its season.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
De Meo is also scaling the ‘see-now, buy-now’ model, shortening the development and production cycle so that runway items hit the stores faster.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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The population consisted of workers transforming the strip of land to be habitable, even desirable, reforming the cluster into a model of hospitality.

— Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
The decade-plus of legal oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, criminal justice experts have said, offers insight into the difficulties of reforming law enforcement agencies charged with endemic racial bias.

— Yana Kunichoff, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2026

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