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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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His most “persistent hater,” the pompous moralist Cato the Censor, railed at Scipio’s unseemly pride and alleged corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

The Bangladesh Film Censor Board recently denied a certificate to yet another film, “The Border,” directed by Saikat Nasir.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

In New Zealand, she adds, the democratically elected government has a Chief Censor who reviews the content of films and literature.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond poses this question in her first feature film Censor, set in the so-called "video nasty" era of the 80s.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2021

The Press Censor perhaps——" "Cannot gag the mouths of a million, old chap.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)




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