1
as in amends
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 censors
to remove objectionable parts from
a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness
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“Red-pencils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-pencils. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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