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
Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 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
New rules have been introduced for all XL bullies, including that they must be kept on a lead and muzzled in public.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 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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Darwin observed this phenomenon while working in the Galápagos in 1835, noticing for example that finches had varying beak shapes suited to their food sources found on the differing islands.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The mute swan is a formidable rival to California’s most common native swan, the much smaller tundra swan, which is also differentiated by its straight neck and black beak.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Years later, a right-wing party was elected and tried to censor the news and shut the network down.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
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This is far from the first time the show's cohosts have been censored on the air for using profanity during the broadcasts.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 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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Most notably, clowns were tamed, silenced, and directed to reimagine their physical comedy to appeal to the youngest viewers.—
Time,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Others said preachers twisted scripture to silence them.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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Ardbeg House, a luxury 12-room hotel that sits on the nib of Port Ellen, a quaint town on the Hebridean island just off Scotland’s west coast.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
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Love Is Blind star Jordan Keltner is getting plenty of attention after whipping up a chicken smoothie that left his fiancé (and viewers) gagging.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
17 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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The bill writes health reimbursement accounts into the tax code, giving small businesses more affordable and flexible health insurance options, according to NFIB.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Advocates and beneficiaries say halting the food aid would force people to choose between buying groceries and paying other bills.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Muzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muzzle. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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