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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
Verb
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Every feather was clipped short; the bullet must have gone the length of the bird’s body cutting feathers and not once drawing blood!—
Percy Brown,
Outdoor Life,
12 June 2025
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First, trim your nails by clipping straight across to create short tips.—
Fiona Embleton,
Glamour,
11 June 2025
Verb
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Backstage at Georgie’s Alibi Monkey Bar, a popular LGBTQ club in Wilton Manors, Jacob Smith carefully removed his gravity-defying, bejeweled blonde wig and light pink costume.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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Also, remove very old or declining stems back to healthy trunks or to the ground.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2025
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That wiped out the small gains that the stock made this year.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
13 June 2025
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Rancho Bernardo, seeded No. 8, upset No. 1 Fountain Valley 4-2, weathering lightning and hail that wiped out the first game and forced a second trip.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2025
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Chen’s set, interweaved throughout several episodes, goes fine — it’s hit and miss (there are also probably some translation blips that disservice the wording).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
2 May 2025
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Luckily, Nan finds the correct disk just in time to save the crew from getting blipped from existence, and Walton gets the fatal-content-error screen that indicates the game has been deleted from the server entirely.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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O’Hara simplifies vocabulary, reassigns lines and excises parts that don’t interest him, but otherwise sticks to Shakespeare’s template.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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If the Administration forces various agencies to excise gender from the study of health, the government won’t be able to gather the evidence needed to justify policies that would benefit a wide range of people, including, in the case of COVID, men.—
Paisley Currah,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
Verb
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The final six percent began with a bad omen as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander buried a three-point shot with 2:58 on the clock that cut the lead down to one point.—
Tony East,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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Medicaid is a point of major friction for Republicans in states with high Medicaid enrollment and who oppose changes that would essentially cut benefits or jeopardize hospital funding.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
15 June 2025
Verb
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Nail polish remover: Use a small amount of nail polish remover on a cotton ball to erase scuffs.—
Maryal Miller Carter,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Authoritarians seek to erase the past and create their own skewed national narrative.—
John Leguizamo,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Video stores, as Perry points out, thrived as independent businesses in the eighties, were dominated by Blockbuster and other chains in the nineties, lost ground to big-box-store DVD sales in the two-thousands, and were just about obliterated by streaming services by the early twenty-tens.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 June 2025
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Images show deep muddy scars carved into the mountain, with buildings and trees obliterated.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
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“Bleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleep. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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