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Recent Examples of expurgate The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews. J. Hoberman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expurgate
censor
Verb
  • Apple's action has reignited the debate about what's known as jawboning, when government officials censor speech through intimidation and threats.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • By monitoring and censoring the titles that libraries can carry, book bans ultimately serve to discredit these institutions’ authority and justify defunding them.
    Alex Wermer-Colan, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Expurgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expurgate. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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