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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
Verb
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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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Shares slumped 16% for a third straight session of losses, wiping out $400 billion in market cap on Monday alone.
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Abram Mashabela, an operational site manager for Aurum Institute, told Semafor the total withdrawal will all but wipe out the NGO’s capabilities in the province.
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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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Many Chicagoans were irate that their absentee neighbor gobbled up parkland for his private fiefdom, though center staff point out that the project really added a few extra acres to it by excising the roadway that cut the South Side off from the water.
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Da Messina’s Annunciation famously excises the angel Gabriel, while Ghirri’s version further edits the event by also obscuring the Virgin herself.
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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 30 Jun. 2026.
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