react = "to delete editorially"

[Benjamin Barrett]

I like "react" myself <g>. BB

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> Fox News just quoted a memo from NBC (with on-screen transcription) advising that certain material "must be redacted from the ad" for it to be approved for broadcast.
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>   "Redacted": vastly classier than "removed."
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>   JL
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