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
Many are undated and lack context, and most women who are featured in the photographs had their faces censored by Congress for privacy's sake.
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Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Rachel was in good company on Friday's show, however, as Ripa was also recently censored on the program for dropping a comical bit of profanity during an interview with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
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Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Rachel was in good company on Friday's show, however, as Ripa was also recently censored on the program for dropping a comical bit of profanity during an interview with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censor
Verb
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Condensed and edited by Rebecca Kilroy.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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That allowed the Panthers to shorten the game and possess the ball for 10 minutes and 32 seconds longer than the Rams, whose defenders this week admitted to being knocked off the line of scrimmage this week by the Carolina run blockers.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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More San Francisco businesses may have their operating hours shortened as two supervisors seek to expand the city's neighborhood store curfew.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kardashian actually deleted an earlier version of the post but then put it back up.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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Baldoni's lawyers later claimed in a letter to Judge Lewis Liman that Lively previously requested for Swift to delete the women's text messages.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
Verb
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Gently rub it in, wait at least 30 minutes, then toss your pillowcase into the washing machine to launder.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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So can those who set prices; deal with Mexican cartel suppliers; launder money; establish drug houses; and pay smugglers, intermediaries and others.—
Kevin Krause,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Censor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censor. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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