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Straighten a sentence in report (5)

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align

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'straighten' is the definition.
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'a sentence in report' is the wordplay.
'sentence in report' becomes 'lign' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'lign'='ALIGN'

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(Other definitions for align that I've seen before include "Arrange so as to be parallel" , "Get straight" , "Make (things) fit together" , "Arrange in a row" , "Join as ally of malignant sort (5)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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