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
Griffin also confirmed that the large bundle of documents released last month had been temporarily removed from the government website "to redact some additional information".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
The Justice Department deployed hundreds of attorneys to review the millions of pages for review, giving them instructions on how to redact and determine whether files needed to be released.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
"Abridge, redact," he exclaims towards the end, but there was no abridgment and no redaction.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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
Of those, only 13 are living, and the attorney general’s report redacts their names and other identifying information.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023
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 Thomas Carlyle
The Premier League published a redacted version of the commission's report, which said the charges "concerned well over 100 alleged individual breaches of Premier League Rules across four broad charge categories".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The document, partially redacted, suggests that the woman suffered from mental health problems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Several areas of the report were redacted, including statements from the brothers about what transpired as they called 911.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
A second draft of the letter, dated March 4, contained altered language providing that the voter information would be “transferred” to HSI, with one exception: Voters’ party affiliation would be redacted, if possible, it said.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
She'd seen it in the library book before it was redacted.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Lord Beamish also said the government was redacting documents "too broadly - particularly in the case of personal information".
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
There sit Robespierre and Company, embraced by Municipals and Jacobins, in sacred right of Insurrection; redacting Proclamations; sounding tocsins; corresponding with Sections and Mother Society.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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