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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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Katz said she no longer wanted to participate in meetings if she had to censor herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The agency cannot lawfully act as a viewpoint censor.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Baser told BBC Scotland News she was told she did not need to "censor" her set by festival staff, and apologised for "any upset".

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

It was a strange sight in Los Angeles, seeing stadium workers asking attendees to discard flags in an effort to censor the expression of people here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

She didn’t seem to censor herself or craft her sentences.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

In interviews and via his vanity cards he would, occasionally, rail against television critics, network censors, reality TV and the Television Academy, which consistently overlooked his series in the best comedy category.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

It was an inconvenient truth Xi’s own remarks had left out, and it circulated widely online before censors moved to contain it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

He reposted most but they were often deleted by censors, who warned that his account could be closed.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Lantern and other tools are constantly discovering new approaches or vulnerabilities, while censors such as Iran discover new ways to shut them down.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Yet prison censors went through each of those newspapers every day with scissors, clipping articles that they deemed unsafe for us to see.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Still, references to dark chapters of his decades in absolute power are tightly censored in public discourse.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

It has also been difficult to find the video on China's heavily censored internet.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Who has been censored here? Name one journalist whom we have censored? There isn’t one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The Canadian Instagram page of Heinz changed its profile picture to a badly taped-over version of its logo, and posted a picture of its ketchup with the logo censored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

The pages reminded Hanako of the censored letters she had gotten from her father when he was in North Dakota.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

The lawmakers said the measure was "not about censoring a service or banning a social network; it is about no longer brandishing a threat that nobody believes in".

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

As Salon has reported before, these things can appear extremely bright in the night sky, vexing astronomers and essentially censoring the stars.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

The FCC says on its website that the "First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter".

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

A short while later, it introduced rules censoring the input and output of generative AI models, a tightening of earlier rules that required tech companies to disclose extensive details about their algorithms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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