redacted
adjective
re·dact·ed
ri-ˈdak-təd 
: edited especially in order to obscure or remove sensitive information
a highly redacted copy of the file
The Pentagon declined to make the … report public, and only when pressed with Freedom of Information Act demands did it disclose parts of the report, some 1,700 pages of documents so heavily redacted as to be nearly incomprehensible.—
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Now that a redacted version of the lawsuit has been filed with New York State Court, years of frustration were given an opportunity to boil over in public.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
The redacted call report offers no details of the police work that ensued.
—Josh Salman, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
The redacted sections are for the personal privacy of Moth and the doctors involved.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 9 July 2025
Leavitt also indicated that Trump does not know what remains to be released in the Epstein files and that judicial action may be required for the administration to release a redacted version of them.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2025
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Evan Clark, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
The redacted call report offers no details of the police work that ensued.
—Josh Salman, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
The redacted sections are for the personal privacy of Moth and the doctors involved.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 9 July 2025
Leavitt also indicated that Trump does not know what remains to be released in the Epstein files and that judicial action may be required for the administration to release a redacted version of them.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2025
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“Redacted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redacted. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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