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• v  cut or eliminate

• He employed a Frenchman, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p.
• Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good .

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Diego Union Tribune
  The budget passed by the Assembly is a budget the people of California can be proud of,Schwarzenegger said Friday. "It takes the operating deficit down to $700 million - and more after I use my blue-pencil authority."