| Text | Length |
| Make less wordy, say | 20 |
| Make less wordy, as an article | 30 |
| Make less explicit, perhaps? | 28 |
| Make emendations | 16 |
| Make cuts, say | 14 |
| Make changes, as to an article | 30 |
| Make changes to, as a manuscript | 32 |
| Make changes in Time? | 21 |
| Make a dele | 11 |
| Make "Time" | 21 |
| Mad workers do this | 19 |
| Look for grammatical errors, say | 32 |
| Iron out a draft | 16 |
| Insert carets, perhaps | 22 |
| Improve prose | 13 |
| Improve for publication | 23 |
| Improve a draft | 15 |
| Handle text | 11 |
| Good writers do it often | 24 |
| Go to work on Time? | 19 |
| Go over proofs | 14 |
| Give Life support? | 18 |
| Get your story straight? | 24 |
| Get Shape into shape | 20 |
| Get ready for publication | 25 |
| Get ready for printing | 22 |
| Get People ready for people | 27 |
| Get copy right | 14 |
| Get a new film into shape | 25 |
| Fix, as phraseology | 19 |
| Fix, as copy | 12 |
| Fix, as a post | 14 |
| Fix up text | 11 |
| Fix up copy | 11 |
| Fix up a manuscript | 19 |
| Fix texts | 9 |
| Fix stories | 11 |
| Fix on a page | 13 |
| Fix errata, e.g. | 16 |
| Find the right words, say | 25 |
| Ferret out flubs | 16 |
| Exchange some words? | 20 |
| Emulate William Allen White | 27 |
| Emulate Norman Cousins | 22 |
| Emulate Mencken | 15 |
| Emulate Harold Ross | 19 |
| Emulate Fadiman | 15 |
| Emulate Edward Bok | 18 |
| Emulate Charles Merz | 20 |
| Emend a manuscript | 18 |
| Drop a line, maybe | 18 |
| Do word work | 12 |
| Do Time? | 8 |
| Do text work | 12 |
| Do some word processing | 23 |
| Do some Wikipedia work | 22 |
| Do some tense work? | 19 |
| Do some redacting | 17 |
| Do some postproduction | 22 |
| Do some Photoshopping | 21 |
| Do some paper work? | 19 |
| Do some cutting | 15 |
| Do some copy work | 17 |
| Do some "Money" changing? | 35 |
| Do rewrites | 11 |
| Do newspaper work. | 18 |
| Do Greeley's job | 20 |
| Do desk work | 12 |
| Do copyreading | 14 |
| Do copy-desk work | 17 |
| Do copy desk work | 17 |
| Do city-room work | 17 |
| Do a tape job | 13 |
| Do a redacting job | 18 |
| Do a paper job | 14 |
| Do a newsroom job | 17 |
| Do a magazine job | 17 |
| Do a diaskeuast's job | 25 |
| Delete a scene | 14 |
| Dele or rewrite | 15 |
| Deal with one's period, perhaps? | 36 |
| Cut, rearrange, etc. | 20 |
| Cut, for example | 16 |
| Cut, as a film | 14 |
| Cut words | 9 |
| Cut text, say | 13 |
| Cut out, say | 12 |
| Cut out, e.g. | 13 |
| Cut out bloopers | 16 |
| Cut or stet | 11 |
| Cut movie footage | 17 |
| Cut in a column | 15 |
| Cut from a film | 15 |
| Cut for a column, say | 21 |
| Cut film, e.g. | 14 |
| Cut down, perhaps | 17 |
| Cut down, maybe | 15 |
| Cut down to size, maybe | 23 |
| Cut and splice film | 19 |
| Cut (out) | 9 |
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