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Synonyms for censorship
ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪpcen·sor·ship

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. censoring, censorship, security reviewnoun

    counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy

    Synonyms:
    security review, censoring

  2. censoring, censorshipnoun

    deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances

    Synonyms:
    security review, censoring

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PPDB, the paraphrase database4.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "censorship":

    censure, censor, oversight, censored, inspection, no-confidence, non-confidence

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How to use censorship in a sentence?

  1. George Bernard Shaw:

    Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  2. Emily Jashinsky:

    Where the anxieties of the working class and Baby Boomers were channeled into Trump, the anxieties of the left were channeled into a furious, culture-wide censorship campaign (against the Common Good). (Our Parents)

  3. Clare Booth Luce:

    Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

  4. President Obama:

    We can not have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship in the United States, because if somebody is able to intimidate us out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing once they see a documentary that they don’t like or news reports that they don’t like, that’s now who we are. That’s not what America is about.

  5. Candace Owens:

    Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys?


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