as in to edit
to remove objectionable parts from
the producers were told that they would have to censor their movie if they wanted a PG rating
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Recent Examples of censor
Vance and his allies think dominant tech firms censor speech by conservatives, and control too much of Americans' daily lives.
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Ashley Gold, Axios, 15 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live has had to hit the bleep button on hosts and even cast members before, but the most recent episode took it one step further when the entire audience was censored for yelling out a swear word.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live had to retroactively censor audience cursing on its most recent episode during a skit which discussed the White House Correspondents Dinner; the hosts' shocked reactions were captured on camera as the segment went slightly awry.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
The government cannot censor speech that is false but does not lead to a specific, identifiable harm.
—Michael Gregory, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Ashley Gold, Axios, 15 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live has had to hit the bleep button on hosts and even cast members before, but the most recent episode took it one step further when the entire audience was censored for yelling out a swear word.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Saturday Night Live had to retroactively censor audience cursing on its most recent episode during a skit which discussed the White House Correspondents Dinner; the hosts' shocked reactions were captured on camera as the segment went slightly awry.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
The government cannot censor speech that is false but does not lead to a specific, identifiable harm.
—Michael Gregory, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censor
Verb
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This interview has been edited and (barely!) condensed.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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This interview has been edited for clarity and length. IndieWire: Was there anything left on your bucket list for the show, going into this last season?—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
4 May 2025
Verb
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Scientists have learned that mother plants can take stock of environmental conditions and relay signals to developing seeds to prolong or shorten this dormancy.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 May 2025
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The amateur draft was shortened from 40 rounds to five, quashing the possibility that Morgan would be drafted out of OCC that summer.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The Windows-maker has generated a raft of headlines this time around by confirming its new default and that users should be deleting passwords from their accounts.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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This bill proposes to delete the requirement that the insurance policy name the HOA as an additionally named insured.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2025
Verb
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Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event.—
James Reston Jr.,
Star Tribune,
29 Mar. 2021
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The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization.—
Jonah Goldberg,
Alaska Dispatch News,
28 Aug. 2017
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Mr. Jang’s name has been expurgated from all official records in the North.—
CHOE SANG-HUN,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2016
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The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.—
J. HOBERMAN,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2016
Verb
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Most players who aren’t reviewing the game should feel comfortable skipping these scenes and getting back to the action as quickly as possible.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
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For the study, published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, scientists reviewed more than a dozen previous papers, including data on nearly 6,000 distance runners.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
9 May 2025
Verb
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In The Accountant 2, now in theaters, Affleck returns as an accountant on the autism spectrum who un-cooks books and launders money for criminal organizations around the world.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2025
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New appointees to oversee the Vatican bank tried to bring more transparency to a shadowy institution suspected of laundering money, and a panel of eight cardinals from six continents advised Francis on how to overhaul the Curia.—
Henry Chu,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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