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• Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.From the entry excise
• Please, I'm begging you, censor those j-slurs!From the entry j-slur
• Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh - created by British author A.A.2023 April 10, Sarah Wu, Yew Lun Tian, Fabian Hamacher, Yimou Lee, “A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes…. From the entry representation
• Censors often delete articles on WeChat groups run by neo-Maoists, who denounce the “bureaucrat-capitalists” running China.2021 July 2, “A future, with Chinese characteristics”, in The Economist, volume 439, number 9251, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12. From the entry neo-Maoist
• Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police.2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 24. From the entry Arabist
• Seigel had at least triumphed over the Japanese censor and his black pen.2006, Calton Lewis, Wake Island: The Story of a Civilian Pow at Niigata, Japan 1941-1945. From the entry black out
• If content filtering is legally enforced, censoring GNUnet is possible at a very large scale.2003, Dennis Kügler, “An Analysis of GNUnet”, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, edited by Roger Dingledine…. From the entry rubber-hose cryptanalysis
• The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War. From the entry canned
• The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr.1997 January 26, Judith Miller, “FILM: Making Money Abroad, And Also a Few Enemies”, in The New York Times, New York, archived from the…. From the entry gemütlich
• Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores.1996 July 16, Gary Goodman, "Re: Riefenstahl film on PBS", alt.censorship, Usenet. From the entry genophobe
• So near the knuckle, I wonder they got past the censor.1972, Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. From the entry near the knuckle
• The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.1955, Lionel Shapiro, chapter 15, in The Sixth of June, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. From the entry scissor
• Longan’s snake-phobia wonder how the picture escaped the eagle eye of the censor, wonder what Mr.1930 August 17, “One of Midwest’s Big Newspapers Has Long-Standing Taboo on Snakes; But Kansas City Star Slips up Somewhere and Publishes…. From the entry snake-phobia
• Certainly no pages could seem to the censor more rankly blasphemous.1907, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, page 22. From the entry rankly
• CFPB also went after a Chicago-based nonbank mortgage firm, Townstone Financial, for supposed discrimination and to effectively censor the owner’s speech.2025 February 10, CRA Staff, “Primer: The CFPB Should Be Shut Down”, in Center for Renewing America. From the entry nonbank
• The CPD also manages China’s massive army of censors and works closely with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).2022 May 5, Helen Raleigh, “Biden's disinformation board is authoritarian and reminds me of my life in China”, in Fox News. From the entry mps
• Brave of you to shadowbox all those non-existent censors though.2012 July 28, Gulliver [username], “Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be”, in Whatever, WordPress, Comments. From the entry shadowbox
• The woman wants to censor us, Hill.2008, Hugh Carleton Greene, portrayed by Hugh Bonneville in Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, on his exasperation at Mary Whitehouse's…. From the entry troilism
• With her play Diamond Lil, she discovered a way to sneak her flammable subject matter past the censors.2004, Elizabeth Prioleau, Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love. From the entry flammable
• The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.1971, Hugo L. Black, New York Times Company v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, page 403 U.S. 713. From the entry free press
• At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 09 Dec…. From the entry netizen
• On the first day of each month the Son of Heaven should visit the Imperial College, attended by the prime minister, six ministers, and censors.2013, David Solomon, P.C. Lo, The Common Good: Chinese and American Perspectives, page 187. From the entry libationer
• The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry undermine
• To slip past censors, Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge, cloaking their messages in protective layers of irony and satire.2011 October 26, Brook Larmer, “Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ethos
• “Yes, Matthias Krenzer, the old Dutch censor, who stole the censer, and became an old Dutch cleanser, later opened a small muffinery and became known as the Muffin Man.”2010, Daniel Pinkwater, “Yes, I Know the Muffin Man”, in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton…. From the entry muffinery
• It's got plenty to make them blanch if and when it is shown them, although the New York State censor board okayed it with insignificant scissorings.2009, Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code, page 277. From the entry scissoring
• It is commonly defined as a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information on the web backfires, causing greater publicity.2009, John W. Dozier, Sue Scheff, Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet, HCI…. From the entry Streisand effect
• Pearlie has managed to acquire a phone that purrs, but doesn’t ring; she has found a breed of barkless dog; she censors the newspapers by cutting out upsetting articles.2008 May 11, Maggie Scarf, “The Fog of Love”, in New York Times. From the entry barkless
• Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century.1974 February 2, Rudy Kikel, “The Good Grey and Great Gay Poets”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 17. From the entry obliteration
• "The inability of slow-witted censors to keep up with the implications of fast talk from "ultra-modern slanguists" made for a fun game of hide-and-seek between the hip and the hapless.1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press…. From the entry slanguist
• The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit.1982, Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater, Peter Gillman, The Falklands War, page 212. From the entry minder

Meaning of censor

1. noun One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.
2. noun A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
3. noun An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

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How do you use censor in a sentence?

Censor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.”

What is a short sentence with censor?

“Early dropout is one cause of right-censoring.”

What does censor mean?

Censor means one of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.