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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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A: Being censored by others is one thing but I do not censor myself.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

David Loy, the legal director for the nonpartisan First Amendment Coalition, said the measure would censor the free speech of all citizens, not just those who defamed or threatened immigrant aid workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

In the latter case, it’s a question of who do we censor in our public spaces, how we make sure our public spaces are accountable to people.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

“But you aren’t authorized to censor letters, are you?”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

Some of its obfuscation tools, designed to bypass censors in restricted countries, have not performed well in highly restrictive environments like China and Russia.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 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

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

Before the postcard was delivered to New York, it was read by Russian censors, and Bobby’s intemperate response found its way into the Soviet press.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Russell’s filmography has something for everyone — and, until this year, something for no one: his controversial 1971 religious epic “The Devils,” a film as heavily censored as it was widely banned.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

It’s got to be censored all over the place.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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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