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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.
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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.
—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
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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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleep
Verb
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Pinch-hitter Jose Tabata fouled off a pair of 2-2 pitches before Scherzer clipped him on the elbow with a breaking ball.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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In one snap, the proud mom can be seen sitting in a pair of pajamas with her hair halfway clipped up as Santi sits on her lap, smiling at the camera.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
19 June 2025
Verb
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Kids who try to end-run this will have their streams removed and live chat disabled.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
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Florida Fish and Wildlife officials removed the alligators, allowing divers to recover a deceased male from the vehicle.—
Chris Anderson,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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The Spanish crown then imposed its language on the subjects, wiping out or nearly wiping out other languages in the process.—
Carey Baraka,
The Dial,
26 June 2025
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For one thing, the same nuclear powers these countries are seeking to deter—China, Russia, and North Korea—could decide to wipe out any emerging nuclear programs in a preventive attack.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
Verb
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Chen’s set, interweaved throughout several episodes, goes fine — it’s hit and miss (there are also probably some translation blips that disservice the wording).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
2 May 2025
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Luckily, Nan finds the correct disk just in time to save the crew from getting blipped from existence, and Walton gets the fatal-content-error screen that indicates the game has been deleted from the server entirely.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The decision to excise the HBO moniker was widely derided at the time as flawed managerial thinking.—
Ryan Faughnder,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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O’Hara simplifies vocabulary, reassigns lines and excises parts that don’t interest him, but otherwise sticks to Shakespeare’s template.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
Verb
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The prospect of trying to cut open a stubborn 5-4-1 block in the Orlando heat could have become torturous quite quickly.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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The latest setback was the Senate parliamentarian striking down several provisions of the bill that were designed to cut spending.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2025
Verb
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Federal climate science is being systematically erased.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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The Human Constant Technological revolutions do not erase the need for human judgment.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Unlike supernovas, which obliterate stars, novas are recurring events that only affect the outer layer of a white dwarf.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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“Bleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleep. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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