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Use "bowdlerizing" in a sentence
"Since then, the act of editing or removing offensive content has been deemed "bowdlerizing" and it has taken place many times."
"Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like."
"They cannot do that by bowdlerizing classic literature, by pretending that bad things never happened and that we live in a cotton-candy world."