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For a few of the more vulgar selections, a few slight edits were made to omit a swear word or splice something out for timing.
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Tim Latterner, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2024
How and where the swear word was used is important.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 3 July 2024
But on the actual recording, there is no swear word.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 20 June 2024
The Grass-Mud Horse, for example, is an entirely fictional creature popularized on the Chinese Internet because its pronunciation sounds like an incredibly vulgar swear word that the Communist Party’s automatic censors would normally catch.
—Gregory Maus, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
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Tim Latterner, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2024
How and where the swear word was used is important.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 3 July 2024
But on the actual recording, there is no swear word.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 20 June 2024
The Grass-Mud Horse, for example, is an entirely fictional creature popularized on the Chinese Internet because its pronunciation sounds like an incredibly vulgar swear word that the Communist Party’s automatic censors would normally catch.
—Gregory Maus, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
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“Swear word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swear%20word. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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swearword
noun
swear·word
ˈswa(ə)r-ˌwərd 
ˈswe(ə)r-
: a bad or vulgar word
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