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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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Cue Mr. Carr, his wannabe censor at the FCC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Their hospitality carries a message the regime cannot censor: Iranians long to reconnect with the world that was pushed away from them.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2026

"When a film is accessible to a hundred people on a platform with poor security, it can quickly be pirated and circulated everywhere," said Mustapha, the censor board secretary.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

But the social platforms argue that the right to free speech makes them reluctant to censor or remove content.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

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




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