censoring

verb

present participle of censor
as in editing
to remove objectionable parts from the producers were told that they would have to censor their movie if they wanted a PG rating

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Recent Examples of censoring Equal-time rule doesn’t apply, group says The equal-time rule prohibits broadcast stations from censoring or rejecting political ads paid for and sponsored by legally qualified candidates. — ArsTechnica, 29 Sep. 2026 Earlier in the week, Kraft allegedly led a pressure campaign to force the Seattle rapper off Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour, igniting a firestorm of backlash from artists and fans accusing Kraft of censoring Macklemore’s free speech. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026 Beijing, for its part, maintains a series of firewalls that—in addition to surveilling and censoring the Chinese people—protect Chinese networks from American offensive intrusions. — Anne Neuberger, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2026 Aguirre’s interviews are carefully edited with bleeps, censoring the ‘cabr—s’, the ‘hijos de p—s’ and ‘carambas’. — Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 July 2026 Vance asserted that the 2020 election was rigged due to tech companies censoring information. — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026 Professors are censoring themselves in lectures and rewriting syllabuses. — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 27 May 2026 Residents began self-censoring in private chats and deleting posts out of fear of reprisal. — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026 Meta executives emphasized at trial that the company continuously improves safety and addresses compulsive social media use without infringing on free speech or censoring users. — Morgan Lee, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for censoring
  1. editing
  2. shortening
  3. deleting
  4. reviewing
  5. laundering
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  • Additional reporting by Michael Levitt and Itay Stern, producing by Andrew Mambo, and editing by Carrie Kahn, James Hider and Nishant Dahiya.
    — October 18, NPR, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Jonatan Mose served as cinematographer, with editing handled by Martin Anthon.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of editing
Verb
  • As an investor at Point72, the hedge fund of billionaire Steve Cohen, Shaffer watched Wall Street turn private fund shares into digital tokens without shortening investors’ waits to cash out.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The mission definitely succeeded, shortening the little asteroid's orbit around a larger rock called Didymos by about 33 minutes.
    — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortening
Verb
  • Talk about meeting The Challenge — the latest challenge to the Swedish version of the popular reality-TV show has met its match by way of an apparent AI agent, which is being blamed for deleting its entire new season.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Jarvis sacrifices himself to stabilize Vision’s mind, deleting his code and shifting his processing power to the other AIs to keep them functional.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of deleting
Verb
  • The California Attorney General’s Office, in a statement, said it was disappointed by the decision and reviewing the opinion from the judges.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For example, researchers reviewing 1,138 breach cases found that almost 10% of patient health data breaches come from unauthorized access by health care employees who forward personally identifying information to personal accounts.
    — Alex Rosenblat — CalMatters, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reviewing
Verb
  • Their investigations also uncovered immigration and money-laundering crimes that led to more than a dozen guilty pleas.
    — Bronson Arcuri, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Its co-founder, Changpeng Zhao, also pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program.
    — Madeleine May, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of laundering

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“Censoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censoring. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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