Example Sentences

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“We were almost forbidden from talking about it — ‘Don’t talk about the c-word; you won’t get tenure’ — so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

He began to say the c-word out loud: He wants to create conscious robots.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

My dad was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, so the c-word is on my mind.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2014