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Recent Examples of bleep
The song is clearly a celebration of female sexuality, so the decision to bleep out half the lyrics when the words themselves aren’t necessarily swear words is a poor look by CBS.
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Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2021
As Underwood tossed to a commercial, Osbourne kept talking, and the show had to bleep whatever word came out of her mouth.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
The censors weren't quick enough on the trigger to bleep it out.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2020
The ceremony began on a frothy and obscene note, as the returning host, the British comedian Ricky Gervais, cracked numerous jokes that were bleeped by NBC censors.
—Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
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Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2021
As Underwood tossed to a commercial, Osbourne kept talking, and the show had to bleep whatever word came out of her mouth.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
The censors weren't quick enough on the trigger to bleep it out.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2020
The ceremony began on a frothy and obscene note, as the returning host, the British comedian Ricky Gervais, cracked numerous jokes that were bleeped by NBC censors.
—Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleep
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Josie made two solid, explosive passes at the convoy, but her bird could not avoid getting clipped by enemy fire.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Dec. 2024
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To maximize flowering, prune late blooming clematis hard in February by clipping vines back to the lowest set of flower buds.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
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By law, the process of—formally removing a rule from the books—follows the same rules as issuing a new rule.Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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For instance, Twitter has historically removed millions of fake accounts in costly purges.Brian Greenberg, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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By the end of 1977, the ranks of the guerrilla groups had been largely wiped out, but the dictatorship’s terror continued.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Everything that made queerness revolutionary and radical has been wiped out.George Abraham, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
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If emissions continue at their current trajectory, about one in twenty could blip out of existence.Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
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Back to the Carrera T, and the latest 911 is fitted as standard with rear-wheel steering – this was an option on the previous T – along with a sports exhaust and a rev-matching function that blips the engine between downshifts.Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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His inclusion feels either vestigial or an afterthought when he should’ve been either prioritized or excised completely.Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Still, an earnest pride in her accomplishment has not been fully excised.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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As the weather cools, often in October, stop cutting blooms and let rose hips form.Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
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Macy’s — Shares shed less than 1% after the department store chain cut its fiscal-year forecast .Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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One dud doesn’t erase the good performances Young has put on tape over the past month.Joseph Person, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Nothing could be further from the truth, which explains why Azerbaijan continues to destroy Armenian cultural and historic sites, including churches and monasteries, which have stood for hundreds of years in attempt to erase any traces of Armenian existence in the region.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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This new chip enables the glasses to handle essential processing independently, obliterating latency as an issue, which is a really big deal.Charlie Fink, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Per Pro Football Reference, however, the Lions were favored by three points 70 years ago in the 1954 championship game against the Cleveland Browns … who obliterated the favorites by a score of 56-10.Ben Fawkes, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Bleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleep. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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