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 Now, left-wing activists are trying to wrongfully weaponize the courts to censor him again and harm our shareholders. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Broadcast stations do have some authority to censor political ads. — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 When that ability gets constrained, when communication feels censored, when speed is prized over rigor, when ambiguity gets exploited instead of clarified, the meaning of the work itself starts to erode. — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026 In February 2021, Didulo joined Telegram, a platform popular with conservative users who felt censored from mainstream sites. — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 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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  • Ancestors features cinematography by Patrick Jordan and editing by Stephanie McCutcheon.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Chief among them was the beautiful, bewitching Tina, muse of everyone at the hipster startup magazine Léo once helped edit.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 11 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
  • After the 2012 pay cut, salaries were reviewed again in 2017 but the government chose not to adopt a recommendation to increase them.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Vela Gonzalez was dragged down the concrete steps and pushed to the ground by two agents, before a third agent emerged to handcuff him, according to video footage reviewed by The Times.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of review
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  • 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
  • In 2008, Chirico pleaded guilty to laundering money for the Gambino crime family.
    — Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of launder

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