as in to edit
to remove objectionable parts from
the producers were told that they would have to censor their movie if they wanted a PG rating
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Recent Examples of censor
According to the report, there were 821 attempts to censor library books across all library types in 2024.
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Andrew Limbong, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025
For all its bravado about withstanding the American tariffs, China was also censoring criticisms of its own move to impose retaliatory tariffs.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live has had to hit the bleep button on hosts and even cast members before, but the most recent episode took it one step further when the entire audience was censored for yelling out a swear word.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live had to retroactively censor audience cursing on its most recent episode during a skit which discussed the White House Correspondents Dinner; the hosts' shocked reactions were captured on camera as the segment went slightly awry.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Limbong, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025
For all its bravado about withstanding the American tariffs, China was also censoring criticisms of its own move to impose retaliatory tariffs.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live has had to hit the bleep button on hosts and even cast members before, but the most recent episode took it one step further when the entire audience was censored for yelling out a swear word.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live had to retroactively censor audience cursing on its most recent episode during a skit which discussed the White House Correspondents Dinner; the hosts' shocked reactions were captured on camera as the segment went slightly awry.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censor
Verb
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Editor's note: Some responses have been edited for brevity and clarity.—
Laura Barrero,
Axios,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ward shortened his drop and threw a strike in the small sliver of space just before the hash mark.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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On March 7, a UK judge shortened the sentence of the group’s founder, Roger Hallam, for disrupting a traffic event after an appeal.—
Angelica Villa,
ARTnews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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If they were deleted, the public should be told that — along with why.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Mitchell did not answer questions about whether Harris-Dawson had deleted messages or emails.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event.—
James Reston Jr.,
Star Tribune,
29 Mar. 2021
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The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization.—
Jonah Goldberg,
Alaska Dispatch News,
28 Aug. 2017
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Mr. Jang’s name has been expurgated from all official records in the North.—
CHOE SANG-HUN,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2016
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The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.—
J. HOBERMAN,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2016
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reviewed by ABC News show the north of the same village being cleared by the IDF in October 2024, where crops and buildings are seen destroyed.—
Kerem Inal,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2025
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Significantly, the charges do not address anyone who actually used Tornado Cash to launder ill gotten gains, only the individuals responsible for creating the code central to the Tornado Cash protocol.—
Andrea Tinianow,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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She was sentenced in federal court in Boston to four years in prison for charges of coercing people to engage in prostitution and money laundering conspiracy.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Censor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censor. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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