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adjective

edited

improved or corrected by critical editing

In a sentence

Six example sentences with edited, each labelled with its topic.

  • The edited volume restores three passages the first printing dropped and corrects hundreds of small errors in the notes.

    Literature

  • Scholars now work from the edited letters, since the original transcriptions had misread dates and skipped whole paragraphs.

    History

  • The edited score fixes a bar the copyist duplicated in 1841, and orchestras have quietly used it ever since.

    Music

  • The edited manuscript came back with the sample size corrected and a stray decimal point removed from table two.

    Science

  • Both sides worked from the edited transcript, which fixed dozens of misheard names in the court reporter's first draft.

    Law

  • The edited cut runs twenty minutes shorter, and the confusing flashback now appears where the story actually needs it.

    Movies

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