as in to censor
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Recent Examples of muzzle
Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Reagan was met with pushback from his era's media culture, but Trump and his supporters have endured a decade of smears and muzzles unlike any in American history.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
History is full of tragic situations where political and religious leaders have tried to muzzle and persecute scientists.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for muzzle
Noun
There is no obvious muzzle flash and no sound, only figures appearing to scatter at the same time.
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Even the sweetest pet has the potential to bite when injured and scared so before administering any care, try to muzzle and properly restrain the animal.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for muzzle
Noun
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Almost two weeks later, the parrot, slate gray with a black beak and bright cardinal-red tail, is still missing.—
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When the team’s mascot, Eddie the Eagle, became sick, Pearl came off the bench and donned the bird beak and feathers for one game during March Madness.—
Verb
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For all its bravado about withstanding the American tariffs, China was also censoring criticisms of its own move to impose retaliatory tariffs.—
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According to the report, there were 821 attempts to censor library books across all library types in 2024.—
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These high-confidence marks were located on four tibiae, one mandible, one humerus, and two long bone fragments.—
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European honeybees regularly comb through the hairy area under their nest mates wings using their mandibles.—
Verb
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For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft.—
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But he wasn’t deterred by the crown’s agenda to silence all critics.—
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Older readers of this article may have learned to write in such a way (guilty yer honor) – dipping the nib of a pen into an inkwell, and scratching out the words, hoping to have sufficient ink to complete a word, without picking up too much ink and smudging your masterpiece.—
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For dessert, there’s a housemade gelato featuring orange, custard and cacao nibs.—
Verb
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After weeks of sipping, gagging and occasionally being pleasantly surprised, five shakes rose to the top.—
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Lawmakers need to get it together soon, or the economy will go from gagging to choking.—
Noun
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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.—
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Thomas' team looked at the maxilla, or the upper part of the dog's jaw, because those tooth roots are best for DNA sampling, and researchers were able to pull samples from three specimens.—
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The bill introduced by Warren and Stansbury faces an uncertain future on Capitol Hill.—
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But these days the church is in disrepair and has been closed for two years because the gas bill could not be paid and the heat turned off.—
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“Muzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muzzle. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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