bowdlerizing

present participle of bowdlerize

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  • As such, censoring misinformation carries the strong risk of censoring a good-faith idea.
    Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Lambert said that the family set strict parameters around protecting the privacy of the four youngest children by blurring out their faces and censoring their names whenever they were mentioned.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Bowdlerizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bowdlerizing. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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