to redact
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7.5
- verb
- /rɪˈdækt/
- Formal
:
redactar
- The government decided to redact sensitive information from the report before its release.
- redact sensitive information
- redact names
I wonder why the White House would want to redact his remarks.
- I wonder why the White House would want to redact his remarks.
- Now everything virtually pertaining to myself is redacted.
- But let's just let's redact that.
- They try to use a a star witness whose name and background have been redacted without trying to file anything under seal.
- And it's imperative that the American people see it, understand it without it being redacted and blacked out.
- The White House got a redacted version because they're not really leaning into this much yet.
- Now, we do not know yet what word there was redacted, so let's just say it's a Schatz sandwich.
- It's like there's a number here and a word there and a page number, but mostly it's entirely redacted.
- And so I this unsealed redacted statement from Jack Smith was required by the Supreme Court in the immunity case.
- And the only thing they redacted in the whole damn thing was the author of the memo to, to to Casey starting the program.
- Well, now, icing on the cake, take a look at these two emails, which, yes, I added the black sort of boxes to redact the personal information in them.
- Now Nunez says that he's afraid to share the secret documents he saw because currently redacted White House staffers might be unmasked.
Examples
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Most of his files were redacted.
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And we pulled some old tweets of yours and we have redacted some parts of the tweet.
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I wonder why the White House would want to redact his remarks.
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It's like someone redacted the whole story, so no one else could read it.
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Well, the file looks like it's been redacted.
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Half the data is redacted.
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Records are all heavily redacted.
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When they're asked for documents these days, emails and what have you, we get redacted documents.
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In addition, the facilitator explained that names would be redacted from transcripts and that data would be reported anonymously.
Academic text (2017) -
Before publishing the document, the editor had to redact several personal details for privacy reasons.
Synonyms
337
1.5
To change text, video or audio to make it better
1
8.0
Remove parts of a text to hide sensitive information
1
6.4
To remove words or other information from a document to hide them
To mark text so it will be removed
How Thorough
35
4.6
112
2.8
- Formal
35
7.5
179
3.4
57
2.8
28
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Redact comes from the Latin redigere, made of re- 'back' and the same root as act ('to do' or 'drive'), and it once meant 'to bring together' or 'put in order'. That's why to redact now means to edit and shape a text into its final form, or to remove parts that are sensitive.