as in to censor
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Recent Examples of muzzle
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Federal law requires toy, look-alike and imitation firearms to have an orange colored cap attached to the muzzle end of the barrel and exterior surface of the barrel, among other requirements.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Mabel is confronting her former crush for buying Wondify to muzzle them.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Federal law requires toy, look-alike and imitation firearms to have an orange colored cap attached to the muzzle end of the barrel and exterior surface of the barrel, among other requirements.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
Separation agreements are usually paired with nondisparagement and nondisclosure agreements, as well as company policies that muzzle most managers from discussing personnel matters with the press, to keep things damped down.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, Mabel is confronting her former crush for buying Wondify to muzzle them.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muzzle
Noun
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When the bird dives at high speed to catch fish, its beak slips into the water without a splash.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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The Darryn Peterson era of Kansas basketball started with the freshman phenom canning a deep 3-pointer from near the beak of the Jayhawk logo inside Allen Fieldhouse.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Back then, Comedy Central responded by heavily censoring the episodes — bleeping all mentions of Muhammad’s name and removing key dialogue — and later pulled them from streaming platforms and reruns entirely.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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In 2022, the US also greenlit Starlink service for Iran after the country’s government moved to heavily censor the internet.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Similar to a mouthguard, a MAD holds the lower jaw (mandible) and tongue forward, keeping the airway open.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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These political executions are a callous attempt by the authorities to frighten and silence an increasingly restive population no longer willing to accept their corrupt and oppressive rule.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Service members such as Partezana were sworn to silence for 43 years following the tests — until the law mandating that silence was lifted in 1996 — and given little warning about the harmful physical side effects of nuclear fallout.—
Hope Hodge Seck,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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A couple of hundred years ago, pens with steel nibs were introduced, and in the 19th century, fountain pens were invented that could hold a reservoir of ink in a rubber bladder in the barrel.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
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The remaining cacao nibs are heated, ground to a paste, and mixed with the barest amount of sugar and, if making milk chocolate, milk powder, before being transferred to a refiner.—
Aleksandra Crapanzano,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This came one week after the defense gagged away a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter in a 39-38 loss to the 0-7 Jets, a day that felt like rock bottom for a group now not just compared with the worst in franchise history but the worst in NFL history.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The jugal bone, or what could be called the cheekbone, and the maxilla, or jawbone, are fused, Bertozzo said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.—
David Montesino,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Individual customers' bills will vary according to their usage rates.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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Drew Maloney, the CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association of for-profit electric utilities, suggested that only some states are the drivers of higher average electric bills.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Muzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muzzle. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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