censors in English

noun
1
an official who examines material that is about to be released, such as books, movies, news, and art, and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
It has caused widespread global controversy, stretching from Catholic groups in Europe and America, to a number of states in India that have also banned the film despite federal censors clearing it for release.
synonyms:expurgatorbowdlerizerexaminerinspectoreditor
2
(in ancient Rome) either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public morals.
In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
verb
1
examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it.
my mail was being censored

Use "censors" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "censors" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "censors", or refer to the context using the word "censors" in the English Dictionary.

1. Censors and transparency, the overheads go in both directions.

2. The new censors sent back merely one line: "acceptable for broadcast".

3. The film was given a 15 rating by British censors.

4. Censors were having to deal with an unmanageable number of publications.

5. The official censors have excised the Controversial sections of the report

6. The clamp down will create a new breed of locally created censors.

7. It owns and controls all media in the country and censors the internet.

8. 2 The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the President.

9. 22 The censors changed some names and dialogue and, not infrequently, banned controversial films completely.

10. The censors changed some names and dialogue and, not infrequently, banned controversial films completely.

11. Circumspect Because of the censors, audience dissatisfaction could be mentioned in only the most Circumspect way

12. As Google's latest troubles in China show, appeasing the censors to gain market access localimmunity.

13. Production proceeded smoothly, but getting the completed film past the censors was an entirely different matter.

14. Dual membrane, single frame loudspeaker driver for this horn has been designed, with additional electromagnetic censors for motional feedback application.

15. Synonyms for Bowdlerises include censors, expurgates, blue-pencils, cleans up, cuts, sanitises, sanitizes, edits, launders and purges

16. 2 Constrict somebody to limit or restrict what someone is able to do Movie directors of the time were Constricted by the censors

17. Therefore, the Aediles would have been in some cooperation with the current Censors, who had similar or related duties.

18. On 15 July, it was revealed that the ban is ostensibly due to two WordPress blogs that fell afoul of Kazakh censors, Schwartz writes.

19. Zupan 1914-87 ran Afoul of Yugoslavia's communist censors, but his reputation survived and later grew after tiny Slovenia became independent in the early 1990s

20. In countries where the censors balked at the extreme gore, the film was initially banned or left unrated before being heavily cut.

21. There was much speculation about whether Chinese censors would set restrictions on antiestablishment icon Bob Dylan when he performed in China in April.

22. The reputation of Big Tech is one of hyper-partisan politics, data miners, snoops, Bowdlerizers and censors, monopolists, progressive multibillionaires, and adolescents in arrested development who

23. What you read on Facebook is determined entirely by Facebook’s algorithm, which elides much — censors much, if you wrongly think the News Feed is free speech — and Amplifies …

24. While the Tokugawa regime subjected Japan to strict censorship laws, pornography was not considered an important offence and generally met with the censors' approval.

25. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.

26. We can end up, as we get in a world with more censors -- everywhere there is something filming you, maybe putting it online -- to be able to have a little clip you could wear that says, " You know, I'd rather not. "

27. Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).

28. Therefore the Aediles would have been in some cooperation with the current Censors, who had similar or related duties. Also they oversaw the organization of festivals and games (ludi), which made this a very sought after office for a career minded politician of the late republic, as it was a good means of gaining popularity by staging spectacles.