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[ed-it] / ˈɛd ɪt /


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“When journalists go out on the street their capitalization isn’t what they worry about. They worry about their beats. They write stories and editors edit the stories and they are published without interference of owners.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Producing video once required specialized skills and expensive software; now, she said, “people have TikTok. And the way that you can film and edit there is way easier to learn.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Scientists are pursuing what Dr. Frangoul calls the “holy grail” of gene therapy—a simple infusion that would edit the patient’s blood-forming stem cells inside the body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Those lines were actually spoken nearly an hour apart, and the BBC has apologized for how the edit was constructed.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

"What do you think of these? I had my beauty cabinet make them up. And my mother continues to meddle and edit them."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

He’s been tracking political contests nationwide for more than 25 years and edits and publishes Inside Elections — formerly the Rothenberg Political Report — another nonpartisan field guide to campaigns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

There were competing edits and tales of missing material, some of which was said to be literally buried in the supporting columns of a motorway.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Morrison provided edits and introduced Scott to powerhouse literary agent Amanda “Binky” Urban, who also represented Nora Ephron, Cormac McCarthy and Donna Tartt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The “Department of War” is posting edits of wars happening in the Middle East.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

“This will do,” Miss McDaniels says as she reviews all the edits.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Jupp's predecessor Turness left the BBC after an internal memo leaked to the Telegraph highlighted that an episode of Panorama broadcast a year earlier had edited a speech by President Trump in a misleading way.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Their replies have been edited for brevity and clarity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

The other two students were edited to make them thinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I tapped the mouse to wake it up and then searched for his most recently edited files.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

The BBC later apologised for not editing out the slur from its BBC One broadcast, which was shown on a two-hour delay, and remained on BBC iPlayer until the following day.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, wrote that his company’s large language model Claude had found “a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

One creates disease-resistant trees through Crispr gene editing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The series scored five Emmys for directing, writing, lighting, editing and technical direction at a ceremony earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

I’m reminded of a news story, early in my editing career in Iowa, about a Pioneer Days celebration, complete with covered wagons and costumed “settlers.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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