How to Use self-censorship in a Sentence

self-censorship

noun

• There are two kinds of self-censorship.
  — Essie Assibu, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
• Because the worst thing in the world is self-censorship.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
• The fact is, many people with autism already engage in some form of self-censorship.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• But there is a fine line between discretion and self-censorship.
  — Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
• The report found a high level of self-censorship among journalists due to threats or fear of reprisals by gangs.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• Free speech and self-censorship drew equally sharp scrutiny.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
• Maybe at a subconscious level there’s a certain amount of self-censorship.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
• This is the self-censorship some Harvard students complain of.
  — Harvey C. Mansfield, National Review, 2 June 2023
• Even the perception of politicization will increase the risks of self-censorship.
  — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
• Bringing about such self-censorship is Michael Mann’s ultimate aim.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
• Still, self-censorship is the most devious concocter of self-deceit.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
• And on social media platforms, censorship extends to self-censorship, as users restrict their own speech out of fear of reprisal.
  — Majd Al-Waheidi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• One probable outcome is that creators will engage in self-censorship to ward off harrassment.
  — Brooke Erin Duffy, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• But historically, self-censorship and science denial don’t lead to good places.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
• But Carey said that’s not true elsewhere in academia where in a recent survey, more than half of faculty reported some form of self-censorship.
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 6 May 2025
• Gallese attributed the decline in studies of mirror neurons to collective fear and self-censorship.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• The result of this will, surely, be creative self-censorship and a reluctance among the country’s best architects to bid for public work.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
• The film doesn’t just address the question of state surveillance but of the silent threat of self-censorship as the result of generations of state control.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• Yet self-censorship started to creep into this group long before the Wagner mutiny, says Stepanenko.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023
• This need for validation often leads to self-censorship, preventing you from expressing your true thoughts and values.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• To mollify the Russians, the Finns also practiced self-censorship on a sweeping scale.
  — Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
• For me, as an artist, an educator and a dad, with that suppression leads to self-censorship, and leads to questions about one's self worth, about one's place in society.
  — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 16 Aug. 2024
• But bottom-up censorship—self-censorship—is more nefarious, more widespread, and more difficult to track.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• This one involves self-censorship, fear of informants, and the necessity to appear conformist to some extent.
  — airmail.news, 12 Oct. 2024
• This has created a culture of self-censorship in publishing, one in which even progressive authors are being silenced by public outcry on the left.
  — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
• In an interview, Pinker said that her case, along with others, showed that Harvard had become rife with intolerance and self-censorship.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Chilling effects are thus not only repressive – causing self-censorship – but productive.
  — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
• In other words, will leaders feel a need to practice more self-censorship to refrain from saying anything that others could interpret as being offensive?
  — Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Since May, many comics had revisited their scripts, tweaking their material in a timeworn ritual of self-censorship.
  — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• The Pentagon also sought to force media organizations to sign a self-censorship pledge in exchange for press credentials.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026