censoring
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈsɛn.sər.ɪŋ/
:
censura
- By 1930, the burden of weekly film censoring had rendered this improvised system impractical.
- self-censoring
- censoring event
- censoring point
And with employees, there's a lot of self censoring and more reservation being reserved.
- And with employees, there's a lot of self censoring and more reservation being reserved.
- That's sort of the steel man the case for for censoring.
Examples
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Subsequently, censorship board seats lost some desirability, and the censoring became even more amateurish and haphazard.
Academic text (2005) -
100 controversies instead focused on the people who did the censoring, how they did it, and at what commercial expense.
Academic text (2005) -
And you tell them that my buddy Gary and his family left Russia because censoring is bad.
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There are laws for a reason, so we need to understand that censoring political opinion, absolutely unacceptable.
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The same arguments hold for the censoring problems in the data.
Academic text (1990) -
The thing that bothers me most, though, isn't the censoring but the contents of these letters.
Fiction book (1990) -
Authority was the demos of Athens, the Inquisition, the churches rejecting Darwinism, and the censoring prudes who attacked Freud.
Academic text (1991) -
The government's censoring of news stories has raised concerns about free speech.
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Censoring censoring content that is deemed offensive can limit the public's access to important information.
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Many people criticize the censoring of art, arguing that it stifles creativity and expression.
Synonyms
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4.8
A system that removes parts of books, films or news that people find harmful
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7.2
Stopping a book or article from being published
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9.9
Removing or changing parts of a text that people find offensive to make it acceptable for more readers
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8.2
Something that stops you from seeing or understanding
Removing parts of a book or film that people find offensive
Banning books and art because people think they are immoral or offensive
How Restrictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Censoring comes from the Latin verb censere, meaning 'to judge', and from the Roman official called the censor, who checked people's behavior and public writing. So censoring today means removing or hiding parts that are judged wrong, harmful, or sensitive.