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Could “Rule of the Bone” have fallen so far into obscurity that it’s not engaging disaffected teens and shocking a new generation of censorial politicians?

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

The memory laws place censorial power in the hands of students and their parents.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021

The viral gags have irked China’s censorial government officials for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2018

What came back was material that would have otherwise been redacted with the censorial big black marker pen following parliament's interpretation of the high court and information tribunal rulings of what should be released.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

I give due credit to the censorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and to the imposing gravity, of those magisterial rabbins and doctors in the cabala of political science.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund