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- Shorten sentences, perhaps
- Improve, as a manuscript
- Make less wordy, as an article
- Massage a manuscript
- Tend manuscripts
- Make ready for print
- Do text work
- Alien swallows detective for a change
- Cut and rearrange
- Professionally correct
- Find the right words, say
- Polish, in a way
- Supervise publication
- Do copydesk work
- Smooth out a rough draft