as in to censor
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Recent Examples of muzzle
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
There’s no sign of a rider’s face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature’s eyeless muzzle.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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
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Noun
The 62-grain M855 bullet achieves a muzzle velocity of approximately 3,025 fps, generating 1,709 foot-pounds of energy.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
There’s no sign of a rider’s face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature’s eyeless muzzle.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
Until the attempt to muzzle Kimmel failed, giving satirists a new cause and fresh passion to pursue it.
—Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muzzle
Noun
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The other pair, including one with a bent stem or beak, resembles a romantic duo.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Dec. 2025
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The Lego set includes a posable head and claws, buildable reed and water display stand, and a fish that can be placed in the bird’s beak.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
26 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
25 Dec. 2025
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The Plough and the Stars was, in the end, never censored by the government.—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 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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Do not let the voices of my courageous compatriots be silenced.—
Tucker Reals,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Dan Piper, a teacher who spoke at the vigil, told those gathered that the federal officials are hoping to silence dissent.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The scrape of the nib on the page—tactile, rhythmic—induces a meditative state in which, one hopes, the words will flow.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
19 Nov. 2025
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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
Verb
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There, the family exchanges gag gifts on Christmas Eve before making a public walk to church on Christmas morning.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
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Tressa Lynn Pettibone, 33, had been beaten, tied up, gagged and fatally stabbed twice in the neck and once in the side.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
10 Dec. 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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This is designed more like a wallet, with a pouch to slip your passport in as well as external pockets to stash a few essential cards and bills.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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So far, his repair bill is up to $3,200.—
Michael Abeyta,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Muzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muzzle. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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