How to Use self-censorship in a Sentence

self-censorship

noun

• The fact is, many people with autism already engage in some form of self-censorship.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• The report found a high level of self-censorship among journalists due to threats or fear of reprisals by gangs.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• This is the self-censorship some Harvard students complain of.
  — Harvey C. Mansfield, National Review, 2 June 2023
• The film doesn’t just address the question of state surveillance but of the silent threat of self-censorship as the result of generations of state control.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• To mollify the Russians, the Finns also practiced self-censorship on a sweeping scale.
  — Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
• And on social media platforms, censorship extends to self-censorship, as users restrict their own speech out of fear of reprisal.
  — Majd Al-Waheidi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• Yet self-censorship started to creep into this group long before the Wagner mutiny, says Stepanenko.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023
• Bringing about such self-censorship is Michael Mann’s ultimate aim.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
• In an interview, Pinker said that her case, along with others, showed that Harvard had become rife with intolerance and self-censorship.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Freeman points to the non-disparagement clause central to the LIV Golf deal as well as the self-censorship that invariably happens at companies owned by such powers.
  — Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
• Gallese attributed the decline in studies of mirror neurons to collective fear and self-censorship.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• In its lawsuit challenging the law, Hamburger Mary’s said new statute was designed to be vague, forcing venues across the state to impose self-censorship on drag performances out of fear of running afoul of the law’s provisions.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 23 June 2023
• In other words, will leaders feel a need to practice more self-censorship to refrain from saying anything that others could interpret as being offensive?
  — Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• But bottom-up censorship—self-censorship—is more nefarious, more widespread, and more difficult to track.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Since May, many comics had revisited their scripts, tweaking their material in a timeworn ritual of self-censorship.
  — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• Wang adds that official censorship breeds self-censorship.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• The institute’s findings are rarely mentioned in the Western media either, through journalists’ ignorance or self-censorship.
  — Jonathan Steele, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2024
• Instead, self-censorship has dominated and been attributed to amorphous behind-the-scenes and commercial pressures.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• India is too important for U.S. policymakers to ignore these trends, and Modi’s damaging policies should not lead to self-censorship.
  — Time, 24 June 2023
• Whenever in doubt, authors resorted to self-censorship.
  — Andrada Fiscutean, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2023
• In group chats on platforms like WhatsApp, students have been met with hostility when raising concerns about classmates' speech, leading to self-censorship out of fear of harassment and grading retaliation.
  — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• That section also points up the selectivity of Minnelli’s reminiscences, which seems less the result of self-censorship than of a determination to focus on the positives.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Like other forms of entertainment, to survive in China, the stand-up comedy industry practices rigorous self-censorship and steers clear of political satire.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Russia’s strict laws against disinformation could lead to many AI model creators avoiding sensitive issues in order to protect themselves, creating self-censorship that could limit the model’s growth.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Still, there are other factors at play as well, including market consolidation, self-censorship, and weak legal protections for journalists.
  — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023
• Attacks on non-partisan civil servants inspire submission; threats against newsrooms invite self-censorship.
  — Nancy Gibbs, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
• The Hong Kong Journalists Association said the law will further restrict the media environment, in which self-censorship has become commonplace since the 2020 nationalsecurity law.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• An editor at an online Chinese-language outlet in Singapore admitted to self-censorship — avoiding political topics while pushing messaging that would be favorable to China — to preserve access to the app.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• His increasingly authoritarian turn — with a crackdown on dissent that has created a chilling environment of self-censorship — has pushed India’s vociferous democracy closer to a one-party state, his critics say.
  — Pragati K.b. Atul Loke, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• An American think tank expert described numerous examples of censorship and self-censorship at prominent US institutions.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025