redact
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Her low profile has been maintained, in part, with the help of her lawyer who requested that the Justice Department redact her name in its files.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
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 has also faced criticism over its handling of the files, including failing to redact the names of Epstein's victims.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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
The appeal redacts their names, indentifying jurors only by their numbers from the trial.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The indictment, which refers to crimes between March 2021 and July 2022, lists five defendants, but redacts the names of four.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 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
Superagent Ari Emanuel’s new memoir, “Roll the Calls,” should have been titled “Rude, Crude and Lewd,” given all the redacted words I’ve noticed in excerpts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Through requests to the Sisters of Nazareth, she has tried to get her own records, and received a redacted copy of a register that showed she was at the home.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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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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
The law prohibits the department from withholding or redacting files because they could be embarrassing to public figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 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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