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censor

verb

Definition of censornext
as in to edit
to remove objectionable parts from the producers were told that they would have to censor their movie if they wanted a PG rating

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Recent Examples of censor Much like Teagan and Josh don’t have to censor themselves [around each other], Madison is that for Cam. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 These details, and whether the car was running the now-obsolete Autopilot or its more advanced successor FSD is impossible to know, because Tesla censored that section of the crash report. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026 Publishers censored themselves, fearing prosecution for publishing obscenity or controversial material. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 His work frequently censored by the Israeli government, Mansour developed a vocabulary of symbols that today functions as a language of resistance. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for censor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for censor
  1. edit
  2. shorten
  3. delete
  4. bowdlerize
  5. expurgate
  6. review
  7. launder
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  • Liza brings over two decades of editing experience, with a primary focus on long-form storytelling.
    — Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Lauren Swift writes, edits, and produces multimedia content for Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader.
    — Lauren Swift, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of edit
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  • This can shorten the distance between a business requirement and an implementation, while leaving teams more time for design, integration and product decisions.
    — Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That arrangement shortens the distance that signals need to travel between processing components.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of shorten
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  • When the site’s moderator began deleting pages in June, the agents responded by creating backup pages to dodge the cleanup.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Loughlin had deleted her Instagram account on March 12, 2019, the day the news broke.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of delete
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  • Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event.
    — James Reston Jr., Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization.
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Aug. 2017
Definition of bowdlerize
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  • The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.
    — J. HOBERMAN, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
Definition of expurgate
Verb
  • Courts can also review objective legal questions, such as whether the evidence was sufficient — as Clancy’s lawyer is now asking the judge to do.
    — Monu Bedi, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Other research, reviewed in my own work, has shown that stories from our early oral traditions share similar traits to one another.
    — Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of review
Verb
  • Prosecutors allege that other members of the enterprise continued committing cryptocurrency thefts and laundering money after Lam’s arrest.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The bill would establish a framework for crypto, divide oversight between the Securities Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, set registration requirements and strengthen anti-money-laundering protections.
    — Tanaya Macheel,Talia Kaplan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of launder

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