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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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The trial included testimony from Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who told the court that the company is trying to be as “safe as possible but also censor as little as possible.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Their hospitality carries a message the regime cannot censor: Iranians long to reconnect with the world that was pushed away from them.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2026

"When a film is accessible to a hundred people on a platform with poor security, it can quickly be pirated and circulated everywhere," said Mustapha, the censor board secretary.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

But at the same time, he said, “the more you censor someone, the more young people follow them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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