as in editing
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 censoring
By monitoring and censoring the titles that libraries can carry, book bans ultimately serve to discredit these institutions’ authority and justify defunding them.
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Alex Wermer-Colan, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
The film was finished in 2019, but the Bolsonaro government withheld funding for its distribution, effectively censoring the movie.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
Within the self-censoring limits of the genre, Eisgruber has sensible things to say, maybe too sensible.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
There should also be accountability for government officials that jawboned social media companies like Facebook into censoring Americans’ protected speech.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Last year, Ben & Jerry’s filed a lawsuit against Unilever, accusing the parent company of censoring its public statements to support Palestinian refugees and resolutions to end military aid to Israel.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
The report found of the 329 Ohio State students who responded, 43% reported self-censoring on campus.
—Chris Quintana, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
And the Legislature must stop passing anti-AI legislation, such as bills censoring chatbots and social media, as this paper criticized in a recent editorial.
—John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The country had been at war only a few weeks, but already an organization was censoring mail.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Alex Wermer-Colan, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
The film was finished in 2019, but the Bolsonaro government withheld funding for its distribution, effectively censoring the movie.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
Within the self-censoring limits of the genre, Eisgruber has sensible things to say, maybe too sensible.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
There should also be accountability for government officials that jawboned social media companies like Facebook into censoring Americans’ protected speech.
—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Last year, Ben & Jerry’s filed a lawsuit against Unilever, accusing the parent company of censoring its public statements to support Palestinian refugees and resolutions to end military aid to Israel.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
The report found of the 329 Ohio State students who responded, 43% reported self-censoring on campus.
—Chris Quintana, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
And the Legislature must stop passing anti-AI legislation, such as bills censoring chatbots and social media, as this paper criticized in a recent editorial.
—John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The country had been at war only a few weeks, but already an organization was censoring mail.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for censoring
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Eric Lu, the co-founder of the online video editing software program Kapwing, has offered AI image generation to his customers for several years, starting with Stable Diffusion.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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The series earned four Emmy nominations, for director James Burrows and for production design, sound mixing for a half-hour series and picture editing for a multi-camera comedy.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
29 Sep. 2025
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For adult projects, Alloy works with the writer to develop a full manuscript, and Morgenstein finds this step a way of shortening the process.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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TikTok deal reached Looks like Americans won’t have to worry about deleting the TikTok app off their phone.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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Not only does cloud storage occupy less space, but it cannot be physically destroyed and rendered useless like physical hard drives without a user explicitly deleting information.—
Chongwei Chen,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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After reviewing the incident and speaking with Leclerc and team representatives, the FIA stewards imposed the financial penalty on Ferrari.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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In all, Jubair faces US charges of computer fraud conspiracy, computer fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
19 Sep. 2025
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The couple and their two young children are forced to flee Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Censoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censoring. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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