How to Use censorship in a Sentence

censorship

noun
  • Content creators have turned to blockchains as well as a defense against censorship.
    Shen Lu and Karen Hao, WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • There’s no self-censorship during the creative process.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2022
  • The exact number of killings still remains unknown due to the strict censorship of the media and cutting off the whole country's internet for 10 days.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 18 May 2022
  • The Bond rewrite marked a turning point and, since then, Chinese censorship of U.S.-produced films has become routine.
    Michael Posner, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • In fact, Twitter has been largely blocked in Russia for refusing to comply with the government’s censorship demands.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • But then two board members accused Baim and Reader staff of censorship and demanded several changes to the sale agreement — stalling the transition.
    Kathleen Foody, ajc, 15 May 2022
  • Its problems range from the long-term drift of Hong Kong talent into the mainland Chinese industry to censorship and marginalization.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • This bill promoted internet censorship and violations of the 1st amendment.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 19 May 2022
  • But the mood among many is glum in the face of a new threat: censorship.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And how about those censorship laws of which the British ...
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Some on the right say that fears of GOP censorship are overblown.
    Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And that is an area, on the Russian side of the border, with full censorship.
    Time, 10 Aug. 2023
  • At present, censorship of art and artists is stricter than ever.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The art of drag and the freedom of expression that comes with it is under threat of censorship.
    Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • By then, censorship was moving out of the courts and into schools and libraries.
    Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Like all of Garner’s writing, the book might be seen as a response to a kind of censorship of feeling.
    Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • His gloss on censorship, its past and present, is dizzyingly brisk, and limited to the fate of his own book.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To deny them this privilege is the worst form of censorship.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The alarming number of book bans so far this year shows that the few who support censorship are not backing down.
    Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
  • So why is Kennedy, who purports to care about issues of censorship, speaking at the summit?
    Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Because of propaganda and censorship, many of them weren’t aware of the depth and prevalence of poverty in the country.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Walz let Vance get away with Stop the Steal diction and spin the bottle to make censorship and cancel culture Harris’ fault.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In any case, this censorship snafu, though soon sorted out, was not what the occasion called for.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For some, like in Putin’s Russia or in Xi’s China, that’s through active state censorship.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
  • During his speech at the British Book Awards, Rushdie spoke out forcefully against censorship.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • Dropping a comic strip from our pages is not censorship.
    San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The public commented via email and in person in support of the arts center and censorship-free art.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, state legislators have sought to solve these problems in the worst possible way: with a wave of censorship of their own.
    José Antonio Bowen, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Greer’s organization is known for its viral protest efforts against internet censorship and surveillance and in support of net neutrality.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In general, however, self-publishing operated outside of any censorship regime.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

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