In a sentence
Six example sentences with edit, each labelled with its topic.
She spent the summer helping edit the anthology, cutting nine stories and reordering the rest before the press deadline.
Literature
They will edit the footage down to ninety minutes, dropping two subplots and shortening every scene in the desert.
Movies
He learned to edit a magazine spread ruthlessly, keeping six frames from the two thousand he shot that week.
Photography
The producer stayed up to edit the live recording, trimming a false start and a long tuning break before release.
Music
Three managers had to edit the annual report overnight, correcting the sales figures and cutting a chapter on strategy.
Business
She asked a colleague to edit the manuscript before submission, tightening the abstract and fixing two mislabeled figures.
Science
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