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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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"They want people to work out the red lines for themselves, or to censor themselves before crossing them."

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

And we better hope they do, for the sake of so many other media enterprises Carr will undoubtedly pursue and hope to censor.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

Cue Mr. Carr, his wannabe censor at the FCC.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

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

If there were no event horizon, no cosmic censor that shields the singularity from the rest of the universe, very strange things might happen.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Mr. Millepied’s urge to reinterpret for contemporary audiences Prokofiev’s often heavy-going score, which the composer created under the thumb of Soviet censors, seems more than understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

In the decades since, films challenging social norms or scrutinising institutions have more often faced resistance from the censors.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation said the compressed timeline would transform platforms into "rapid fire censors".

From BBC Feb. 11, 2026

They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

"I asked the festival team multiple times if anything needed to be censored and was told it didn't," she added.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

The ads use implicit phrases and censored visuals in an attempt to avoid moderation, Patane found.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

“While data is imperfect and internet use remains heavily censored; we think the reports of restoration of connectivity implies the Iran regime expects a conclusion of the conflict is imminent,” Flight says.

From MarketWatch May 29, 2026

“Only officers are ever authorized to do that. I censored it in your name.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But they also encounter an authoritarian society, Ba Sing Se, where a shadow government maintains control over its population by censoring free expression.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

We are explicitly prohibited from censoring broadcasters, but this is censorship.

From Slate Jun. 2, 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

Google famously exited the Chinese internet search market in 2010 after deciding it wasn’t comfortable censoring results to abide by the government’s censorship rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer’s name.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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