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censor

[sen-ser] / ˈsɛn sər /


NOUN
someone who suppresses information
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Ceremony host Alan Cumming described the night as "trauma triggering", adding: "We were all let down by decisions made to both broadcast slurs and censor free speech."

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

“We’re trying to be as safe as possible but also censor as little as possible.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

But increasingly they are observing governments in countries like Iran and Myanmar emerging from internet shutdowns with a supercharged ability to censor internet access.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 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

Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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