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 Israel Zangwill
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 Thomas Carlyle
The man, whose name is redacted in court documents, was picked up by ICE when he attended a scheduled appointment at a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
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
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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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
“Perhaps the greatest danger is not altering documents but wrongly withholding them or producing and redacting them,” Eisen added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
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 Thomas Carlyle
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