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noun

censorship

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

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Six example sentences with censorship, each labelled with its topic.

  • Wartime censorship cut every mention of troop movements from soldiers' letters before the mail left the port.

    History

  • Officials defended censorship of the weather bulletins, arguing that forecasts would have told hostile pilots when to fly.

    Politics

  • Censorship kept every picture of the damaged shipyard out of newspapers until long after the war ended.

    Photography

  • The novel's soldier learns to write around censorship, telling his mother about the weather when he means the mud.

    Literature

  • Wartime censorship kept newsreel footage of the damaged harbor out of theaters for months after the raid.

    Movies

  • A 1917 law created a board with censorship powers over every cable and letter leaving the country for the duration of the war.

    Law

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