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While the edit is a better one, it still puts words into Stewart's mouth by claiming that he called Truman "insane", which is stretching the truth at best.

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  1. transitive verb To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
  2. transitive verb To prepare an edition of for publication: edit a collection of short stories.
  3. transitive verb To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable: edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
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  • Still I get a blank screen with the thumbs atop when changing to the "edit" - mode within iPhoto. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Indian Express editorial comment is yet another instance of this same mindset, even though the point of the edit is about 'management' of social conflicts. —  Kafila
  • The ability to dynamically allow editing and to validate the edit is a excellent way to give your users a better experience. —  fullasagoog.com full roast blend
  • We asked them to film everything because we knew that after there's the edit, and the edit is when you get your privacy back. —  ! Exclaim.ca - News
  • LightZone's live-regions with feathering can be changed in shape, or moved even after the edit is applied. —  Fulldls.com
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  1. Partly back-formation from editor and partly from French éditer, to publish (from Latin ēditus, past participle of ēdere : ē-, ex-, ex- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French éditer = Spanish editar, from Latin editus, past participle of edere, give out, put out, produce, publish (as literary productions), exhibit, etc., from e, out, + dare, give: see date.
 

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