This is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to delete a certain word from a sentence. For example: "Please remove the word 'extra' from the sentence."
The statement was quickly amended – to remove the word "just".
But he refuses Wimbledon's requests to a least remove the word Dons from his club's title.
"But every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from his lexicon".
It vowed to remove the word from uniforms, vehicles and other insignia in the coming months.
At work I am always learning that... it sometimes pays to remove the word "that".
It has been a long road to remove the word "acting" from Ms. Dow's title.
The Mobil Corporation said yesterday that it would remove the word "degradable" from boxes of its Hefty plastic trash bags.
Correction, 13 August 2014: This article was amended to remove the word "petty" from the headline, standfirst and text.
And that fact also works if you remove the word moth" – to the serial political incorrectness of Ricky Gervais.
This article was amended on Tuesday 7 October 2014 to remove the word 'husband' from the headline and opening paragraph.
However, the publication offered to remove the word "Islamic" from the headline and publish an explanatory footnote to the story.
