bleep

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Recent Examples of bleep The song is clearly a celebration of female sexuality, so the decision to bleep out half the lyrics when the words themselves aren’t necessarily swear words is a poor look by CBS. Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2021 As Underwood tossed to a commercial, Osbourne kept talking, and the show had to bleep whatever word came out of her mouth. Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021 The censors weren't quick enough on the trigger to bleep it out. Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2020 The ceremony began on a frothy and obscene note, as the returning host, the British comedian Ricky Gervais, cracked numerous jokes that were bleeped by NBC censors. Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020 See All Example Sentences for bleep
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleep
Verb
  • The Afloia 6-in-1 Dog Grooming Kit is like a pet spa at home, turning you into their personal groomer for trimming hair, clipping nails, and more.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • An eyewitness tells 12 News that the drones clipped the crane's cable and plummeted to the ground.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Officials urge residents to take precautions like using insect repellent and removing standing water.
    Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Yet, Barclays’ Venkateshwar expects the environment will likely get more difficult for the wireless carrier in the future, as the entire sector deals with elevated churn — the pace at which customers are added and removed.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Show-Me state has two Democrats in Congress and four Republicans, and a map Trump posted on social media would wipe out one Democratic seat.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Once upon a time, this decision would have been an 11th hour save—but in 2025 markets barely blipped.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Price history: Before today's deal, the Sabine Wren lightsaber blipped to $120 in May, and this all but the lowest price for the Baylen Skoll.
    Chris McMullen, Space.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Britain returned to a system of indirect taxes only, mostly excise taxes and tariffs – one of the lowest tax burdens in Europe.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Consequently, Baumbach weaves in a long sequence, set on a train from Paris to the Italian countryside, that might have been nipped and tucked, or nearly altogether excised.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Vance said one portion of Democrats are making unreasonable demands to restore more than $1 trillion over the next decade in healthcare spending that was cut earlier this year.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Training, professional development, and the Safe Cities Partnership are among the areas cut.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Those Padres quickly erased a one-run deficit and eventually won on a walk-off home run by Steve Garvey that remains perhaps the franchise’s greatest moment.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the Rockies’ run differential of minus-416 going into the weekend looks assured to obliterate the modern-era record low of minus-349 set by the 1932 Boston Red Sox.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • St James’ Park does not appear to be the dream venue to obliterate that in a flurry of creativity, but finding more balance in the midfield heartland does feel important.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Bleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleep. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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