How to Use redact in a Sentence

redact

verb
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  • This data is based on actual tax returns, with the names of taxpayers redacted.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 14 July 2024
  • The list will be available at each county clerk’s office and online with personal information redacted.
    — Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
  • The names of the victim and the other boy were redacted from the report.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Names of the callers were redacted from the recordings.
    — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The details of that case are redacted in the court filing.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2023
  • The name of the deceased was redacted in the police report.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • The details of the notes were redacted in the arrest report.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • The disclosure form is then sent to the judge, who can decide what to redact.
    — Coulter Jones, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The department in the records redacted both those names.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 21 June 2024
  • The deal required Google to delete or redact billions of records and change the language on the mode’s opening page.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The names of the officer and the teacher were redacted in a copy of the letter that Yu provided to The Times.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The name of the customer is redacted from the documents, along with details of what was found.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The amount of child support agreed upon was redacted from the court filing.
    — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The child support amount was redacted from the Thursday agreement.
    — USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • There are some details of the leak that Manning had to redact from the book due to a government review process.
    — CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The Tribune has chosen to redact a reference the teacher made to his own child and his name.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The person’s name was redacted when the request was shared with the local news outlet KSL.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
  • The student names were redacted from the emails obtained by Wood through a records request and provided to The Post.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The doctors redacted their names from the letter out of concern for their safety.
    — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
  • The details of those rights are redacted in Diamond’s filings with the court.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Much of the call is redacted, including the caller's name, Austin's symptoms and Austin's name.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Tom did redact one reference, which had to do with women’s work.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Many details of the report were redacted by the sheriff’s office.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • Police redacted parts of the audio that describe a way the vehicle can be stolen.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While some famous names are redacted (though alluded to with blind-item-style clues), here is a guide to the many names that appear in the suit.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But many details, including the 2021 agreement, were redacted at the time.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • Some of Carlson's texts have been publicly released, but the one quoted by the New York Times remains redacted by the court.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Many names are redacted and some pages appear to have been deleted before the file was released.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • The carpet of the room has large areas of blood, which have been redacted in the photos provided by the department.
    — Fabiana Chaparro, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The employee’s name was redacted in the email Jordan posted.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023

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