Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Human Rights Watch's Australia director said Facebook was censoring the flow of information, calling it a "dangerous turn of events".
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2021
In other words, McCarthy was censoring his own Twitter feed, something he could easily reverse by changing his account settings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2018
It turned out that the student in question had been shopping a doctored email to claim that CNN was censoring him.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2018
Because the government made no official announcement about why it was censoring so many websites, much remained unclear on Monday about its intentions, including how it chose which sites to block.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2015
At one time when he was censoring letters, one passed through his hands from a Tommy only just arrived in France, and never in the firing line.
From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Harold W. (Harold Williams) Picton
