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
Kieran Culkin took home the first award of the night for his supporting role in A Real Pain, kicking off the evening with a humorous and slightly censored acceptance speech.
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
But Speech First said the students censor their speech because of Indiana University's bias policy and fear they will be reported to the school for committing a bias incident.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
Rachel Davidson, an attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts, said removing the articles and censoring medical research is a serious constitutional violation.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
The organization said laws in both states censor certain books in public schools.
—Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
But Speech First said the students censor their speech because of Indiana University's bias policy and fear they will be reported to the school for committing a bias incident.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
Rachel Davidson, an attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts, said removing the articles and censoring medical research is a serious constitutional violation.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
The organization said laws in both states censor certain books in public schools.
—Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censor
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In the making of the film, what was initially planned as a five-month shoot stretched over a year, leaving Coppola to edit over a million feet of film, and was plagued by disaster after disaster.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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Note: Some letters have been lightly edited for brevity or clarity.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, the Legislature also imposed an expiration date for petition signatures and then shortened its lifespan from eight years to four years to two years.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2025
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Employees must be given 60 days' notice of their end date, unless OPM grants a waiver to shorten that period to 30 days.—
Stephen Fowler,
NPR,
15 Mar. 2025
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As the company promotes generative AI to the public, Redmond accidentally introduced a software bug last week that can delete the Copilot program from PCs running Windows 10 or 11.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
17 Mar. 2025
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But Rozier is also trying not to let the outside noise affect him, temporarily deleting Instagram and some of his other social media accounts.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 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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White House officials are now reviewing the downsizing plans, a move expected to result in the mass firing of thousands of government workers within the coming weeks, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.—
Nathan Layne and Tim Reid,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.—
Jeff Gluck,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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Funds collected were sent to Canada where in an effort to launder the funds they were converted to cryptocurrencies and eventually converted to Canadian dollars.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Profits are then laundered back to Mexico through China.—
Anna Giaritelli,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Censor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censor. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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