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proofread

 verb
     
Related topics: Newspapers, Publishing
proof‧read also proof past tense and past participle proofread [intransitive and transitive]
TCN to read through something that is written or printed in order to correct any mistakes in it
—proofreader noun [countable]
—proofreading noun [uncountable]
a proofreading job
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