as in to edit
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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His administration censored scientific data on government websites and tried to undermine the findings of the National Climate Assessment, the government’s scientific report on the risks and impacts of climate change.
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Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
Tools used by young learners should be censored to ensure safe communication, and adhering to all locally applicable standards is also a must.
—Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The free speech advocacy group found efforts to censor books nearly tripled in 2023-2024, a significant jump from the 3,362 instances documented over the previous school year.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2024
The national reading renaissance has been attributed to a rise in readership during the pandemic and in places like Indiana, a response to efforts to censor books.
—Justin L. MacK, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
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Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
Tools used by young learners should be censored to ensure safe communication, and adhering to all locally applicable standards is also a must.
—Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The free speech advocacy group found efforts to censor books nearly tripled in 2023-2024, a significant jump from the 3,362 instances documented over the previous school year.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2024
The national reading renaissance has been attributed to a rise in readership during the pandemic and in places like Indiana, a response to efforts to censor books.
—Justin L. MacK, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
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This interview, which took place before Tuesday’s election, has been edited for length and clarity.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
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This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form.Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Or is it shortened from OPSEC (Operations Security) SWAT team?PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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In 2020, the NCAA season was shortened to seven games because of the COVID-19 pandemic.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Newsweek has contacted the Trump campaign via email for comment but has not been able to contact Meyer, who has deleted all of his social media accounts.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Another post, now deleted, claimed a bake sale at a Delaware polling place was intended to sway votes, a potential violation of election law.Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event.James Reston Jr., Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021
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The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization.Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Aug. 2017
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Mr. Jang’s name has been expurgated from all official records in the North.CHOE SANG-HUN, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2016
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The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.J. HOBERMAN, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
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In August, the FBI reviewed credit card statements associated with Williams that showed payment at a parking near a Washington metro station, about a 10-minute ride from the Capitol area, that was made on Jan. 6, 2021, the statements of facts says.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Officers conducting a preliminary investigation reviewed messages the student had left on Discord, an online chatting app used by gamers and others, and arrested the student on suspicion of making criminal threats.Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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This support led to an unexpected bump in fees in 2023 when North Korean hackers laundered $60 million through the mixer in January 2023 in just two days.Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In one experiment, conducted last month, the chatbot came up with advice on how to launder money across borders, according to Strise.Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Censor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censor. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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