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Like unedited report and leader in Guardian, agreeing (9)

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I believe the answer is:

assenting

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'agreeing' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'like unedited report and leader in guardian' is the wordplay.
'like' becomes 'as'.
'unedited report' becomes 'sentin' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'leader in' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'guardian' is 'g'.
'as'+'sentin'+'g'='ASSENTING'

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(Other definitions for assenting that I've seen before include "Saying yes" , "Agreeing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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