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
Bell, 44, also was just wearing a pair of blue knee socks, and her husband lightly censored the image by pasting a red square over her buttocks.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The implications of this policy include that Google search, now enabled by AI, might censor references to these topics.
—Mohammad Hosseini, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
But censoring the language does not erase the people most affected.
—Timothy Holtz, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
This entertainingly risqué rom com takes a lighthearted look at the serious topic of censorship and in so doing risked being censored.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The implications of this policy include that Google search, now enabled by AI, might censor references to these topics.
—Mohammad Hosseini, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
But censoring the language does not erase the people most affected.
—Timothy Holtz, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
This entertainingly risqué rom com takes a lighthearted look at the serious topic of censorship and in so doing risked being censored.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 21 July 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 WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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It was edited by Courtney Dorning, Patrick Jarenwattananon and Sadie Babits.—
August 21,
NPR,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Trump praised Bisignano’s efforts to improve Social Security services by asserting that the agency has shortened call wait times, reduced the disability claims backlog and promoted seniors’ online account access.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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As many people well know, using screens at night delays bedtime, shortens sleep duration, and worsens sleep quality; phones can disrupt rest just by being in the same room, Lauren Hale, a professor studying sleep at Stony Brook Medicine, told me.—
Rheana Murray,
The Atlantic,
11 Aug. 2025
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While teenagers waver, adults must lead by example and delete their accounts.—
Autumn Dorsey,
Boston Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
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Fans who purchase the film on digital can take a deep dive into the massive production with behind-the-scenes interviews, exclusive commentary, and deleted footage not seen in theaters.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Aug. 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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Mr. Jang’s name has been expurgated from all official records in the North.—
CHOE SANG-HUN,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2016
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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
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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,
26 Aug. 2025
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Where Aguilar’s court case stands The criminal case against Aguilar was still developing as prosecutors reviewed the facts and evidence of what occurred.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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But also, this time is sometimes so boring, thick with the maintenance of diapering, feeding, laundering that it can be forgotten altogether.—
Ellyn Gaydos
August 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
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In fact, the primary route of contamination appears to be everyday activities like washing hands after applying the product, bathing pets, and laundering pet bedding.—
Arlene Blum,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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“Censor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censor. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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