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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

But she also points out that she and her co-writer Anthony Fletcher set Censor amidst the violence of the miners' strike and the unemployment of early 1980s Britain.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2021

That belief is the dark heart of Censor, a horror film about the horror film world’s most infamous moral panic.

From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2021

The ancients firmly believed that blood can be stanched by charms; the bleeding of Ulysses was stopped by this means; and Cato the Censor has given us an incantation for setting dislocated bones.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)




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