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censor
verb as in forbid; ban; selectively remove
Strong matches
noun as in someone who suppresses information
Example Sentences
He confiscated privately owned businesses, censored the media, and canceled elections.
Pressure to keep squeezing social justice and LGBTQ+ issues out of classrooms has been intensifying since 2021, when Republican state lawmakers began pushing “dirty book” legislation that would censor school libraries.
“Rather than this overt censoring of journalists, which was how the initial version appeared, it has morphed into this effort to intimidate both journalists and government employees as well.”
The Barbie movie from 2023 was banned in Vietnam and censored in the Philippines for showing a South China Sea map with the nine dash line.
“We want the National Assembly to be dissolved, and we will now censor all the governments that Emmanuel Macron might put forward.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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