muzzled

past tense of muzzle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muzzled
Verb
  • Field hockey In the Middlesex league, Ava Anderson, Aisling Brennock, Sophia Setouhi and Kaylee Master each scored a goal while Natalia Keuchkarian got the shutout as Watertown silenced Arlington 4-0.
    Kristina Banahan, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • While journalists are silenced at the Pentagon.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An episode of The Good Fight about censorship in China was even censored in China.
    Scarlett Harris, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Those people have pretended to be censored and had a really hard time, like their speech is being taken away, but they’re being paid millions of dollars by the richest people in the world to protect the status quo.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The little mechanized lady at the heart of M3GAN became a viral sensation even before the movie was released, with choreography that instantly gagged the entire gay internet.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • They had been bound, gagged, and shot in the head.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Muzzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muzzled. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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