REDACTS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

redacts

verb

present tense third-person singular of redact

as in deletes

to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records. The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released.

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Recent Examples of redacts More detail about what was hit was not available because the Austin automaker redacts narratives in its public reports and did not respond to a request for comment. — Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026 When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025 That’s helped set Waymo apart from its much smaller autonomous-vehicle rival, Tesla’s Robotaxi service, which redacts the most informative parts of its safety data and ignores press queries. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026 For example, a 96-page police report on a Florida investigation into Epstein in the mid-2000s redacts the names of victims and other details, but leaves many other details in. — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025

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Codify a rule stating that when an issuer deletes or consolidates a narrative risk factor to make room for precise financial mapping, that cleanup cannot be introduced as evidence of a material omission.

— Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Disney deletes all biometric numerical values within 30 days, except in cases where the data must be maintained for legal or fraud-prevention purposes.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 May 2026

Definition of deletes

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Windows automatically erases them after 72 hours to prevent them from using too much disk space.

— Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026

Definition of erases

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Laparoscopic excision surgery, in which a specialist carefully removes endometriosis lesions, is widely considered the gold-standard surgical treatment and can improve both pain and fertility outcomes.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Faster clinical brain imaging The new design removes one of the biggest bottlenecks in conventional computer architecture, where memory and processors are physically separated.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

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