censor
Example Sentences
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Once we fought the Cold War arm in arm against “tyrannical forces” that “censored dissidents, that closed churches.”
According to Colbert, the network didn’t just want to censor the content — it wanted to censor the censorship itself, informing him that he couldn’t even mention that he’d been prohibited from airing it.
From Salon
"Maybe the hedonism of the time is a little bit different, where I feel like we're all quite censored a bit more nowadays in what we say and what we do."
From BBC
China's youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors.
From BBC
In the decades since, films challenging social norms or scrutinising institutions have more often faced resistance from the censors.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
