redact
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While your mother’s bank may decide to redact certain sensitive transaction details, it cannot refuse to disclose all accounting.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
According to a report by the Washington Post, Patel has directed agents in the bureau’s San Francisco office to redact the case files for public release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
The Justice Department did redact her name as the sender and receiver in most emails, but mistakenly left it in the body of some messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Massie has also criticized the DOJ, which he says “has failed to properly redact victims’ information while simultaneously succeeding in avoiding the disclosure of incriminated individuals,” in a statement to Salon.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026
"The Rédacteur vill not redact long, hein?" he said presently.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
Officials have said they would release materials as the department reviews and redacts them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The report redacts details of the now-deleted post, from 16 November 2023, which the BBC has seen.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
In Freedom of Information Act requests, the Department of Agriculture redacts anything that could reveal the location of an agricultural operation.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
The statement of material facts redacts the names of the emails’ authors but indicates that they left the company in 2020.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Which duty done, D'Orleans returns in from the gate; redacts his Protest, in the face of an applauding Parlement, an applauding France; and so—has cut his Court-moorings, shall we say?
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Numerous victims have said that their names and other sensitive information were not properly redacted in the files and criticized Blanche and the department for failing to investigate Epstein’s potential co-conspirators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Finger points at AI as famous scientist’s papers mysteriously redacted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Most of the report given to AFP was redacted, citing privacy, national security and confidentiality concerns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
She'd seen it in the library book before it was redacted.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
On 11 March, the government said it was redacting documents to conceal details including people's phone numbers, the identity of junior civil servants, personal data of third parties and legal professional privilege.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In a statement, Inspector General William M. Blier said his “preliminary objective is to evaluate the DOJ’s processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Of those who remain, roughly 1,000 special agents and others are said to be focused on redacting materials related to the Epstein files.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
What they’ve done is all these haphazard redactions, redacting a bunch of things they’re not supposed to redact.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026
For there is much consulting about it, and redacting of it; Polish Majesty himself very busy.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
