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Recent Examples of bleep
The videos have been redacted in some spots, including apparently to bleep out names and blur faces.
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Mike Catalini,
Star Tribune,
1 July 2021
He was cut off by the defense attorney, and broadcast media made efforts to bleep out the address.
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Tami Abdollah,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2021
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.
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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.
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Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2021
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Mike Catalini,
Star Tribune,
1 July 2021
He was cut off by the defense attorney, and broadcast media made efforts to bleep out the address.
—
Tami Abdollah,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2021
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleep
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His partner handed me a tiny version of the leaf to clip to my hat.
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The comments were clipped almost immediately by the Jones team and played on multiple ads on television and social media, and became a regular talking point for Jones during various public appearances.
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Propellers can be particularly burdensome because rotors often need to be removed, cleaned and reinstalled, requiring some real elbow grease.
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The pool is being cleaned twice annually, with 10 to 15 large truckloads of debris removed at each cleaning, the National Park Service reports.
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The two once presented a live demo minutes after a computer cloud crash wiped out their materials, winning anyway after Andreou pitched the product entirely from memory.
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Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead Saturday, prompting dozens of rescues after heavy rains wiped out bridges, inundated roads and flooded homes, with more significant rainfall on the way.
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Once upon a time, this decision would have been an 11th hour save—but in 2025 markets barely blipped.
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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.
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The court ruling is likely to most immediately affect Southern states where local officials could excise majority-minority districts, stripping Black and brown voters of their political power.
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The Olympic organizers have gone to great and sometimes absurd pains to excise political messaging from the Games.
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Kirkmeyer has campaigned on affordability and safety issues, Bottoms is pushing for a redo of the state's education system among other things and Marx wants to cut regulations and lower the cost of living.
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Terrell Carstens, a 25-year resident of Brookhaven, said she is frustrated the city made little effort to find places to cut costs instead of raising the rate.
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By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
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In an era where artificial intelligence automation stands ready to obliterate the job market, the hands-on care of healthcare will continue to do the heavy lifting.
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Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but be obliterated this week.
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“Bleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleep. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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