copyedit

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copyedit
Verb
  • Pamela starts in late April, but don’t stop reading this because that was months ago.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 6 July 2025
  • Keep reading for the 30 best finds starting at $10.
    Jacqueline Tempera, People.com, 6 July 2025
Verb
  • These interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity.
    Janelle Griffith, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • There are also carefully edited gift shops like Trésors Publics, which has become a New Nice institution.
    Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Define swim lanes for each spokesperson, and then polish the narrative for each.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Most high school seniors applying to selective colleges this fall don’t need a lot of advice on how to polish their personal essay or list extracurriculars.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Transcript text may be revised to correct errors or match updates to audio.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 14 July 2025
  • First, funding for small nuclear reactors (SMR) will be revised.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
  • My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Impairment of collateral can and does often happen through the neglect of the lender in failing to take necessary steps to protect the collateral, such as by failing to perfect its security rights thus allowing another creditor to obtain priority.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Norm Miller, University of San Diego YES: Eventually these will be perfected and become part of normal operations, just as self-driving cars are inevitable.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • My favorite roll was the Oshi Salmon roll ($23.50) which subbed salmon with Oshi salmon.
    Irene Milanez, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2025
  • In their first match against Ireland, the midfielder was subbed off in the 59th minute.
    Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • Pivoting quickly to rework a quality control process using a traditional, rigid software solution is almost impossible.
    Ed Jennings, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • In turn, that could trigger a homeowner to purposefully rework the landscape of their property so as to discourage coyotes from using it.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
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“Copyedit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copyedit. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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