censored
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Exiled Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli said on Wednesday that the government censored the publication of her latest novel in her home country because it is "afraid" to hear the truth.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Q: Why do you think your novel was censored?
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Davidson told Variety that he shouted other obscene language during the show that was all censored, and that he felt a “wave of shame” after the incident, removing himself from the ceremony.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
Even China’s heavily censored chatbots have proved difficult to contain within the party’s ideological boundaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
The Quaker agent in Cambridge, knowing, as all such people did, that he was watched constantly, and that his mail might be censored, sent a message to William Still in Philadelphia.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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