laundering

verb

present participle of launder
as in censoring
to remove objectionable parts from had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper

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Recent Examples of laundering For starters, the 46-year-old billionaire was confined to house arrest on his 300-acre Oxfordshire estate in England, fighting off a Swiss extradition request tied to an international money-laundering probe. — Cate Brown, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 Just this week, Bloomberg reported that two manufacturers formerly on FDA's Green List had been laundering product from other sources, had been contaminated with black mold and bugs, and had been destroying records. — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Their investigations also uncovered immigration and money-laundering crimes that led to more than a dozen guilty pleas. — Bronson Arcuri, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 More than $1 billion of the unreported activity involved national security and other high-priority risks, including Chinese money-laundering networks and activity tied to the southwest border, Treasury said in a press release. — Lee Ying Shan,sarah Min, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 Pulido faces charges in two separate federal indictments filed in Miami in 2019 and 2021, involving a total of 13 money-laundering counts, each carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026 As these dopamine chasers inflict their limbic systems on every film, cheering for lizard-brain human suffering, the Olds scramble to give all that bloodlust a higher purpose, laundering it into political statements right there in the Q&A. — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 The Financial Action Task Force, the global money-laundering watchdog, has warned that criminals exploit citizenship and residency programs to conceal their identities, launder illicit wealth and evade justice. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laundering
  1. censoring
  2. shortening
  3. editing
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  • Equal-time rule doesn’t apply, group says The equal-time rule prohibits broadcast stations from censoring or rejecting political ads paid for and sponsored by legally qualified candidates.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier in the week, Kraft allegedly led a pressure campaign to force the Seattle rapper off Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour, igniting a firestorm of backlash from artists and fans accusing Kraft of censoring Macklemore’s free speech.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of censoring
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  • Anthropic also observed models using URL-shortening services to work around limits designed to restrict certain web requests.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • As an investor at Point72, the hedge fund of billionaire Steve Cohen, Shaffer watched Wall Street turn private fund shares into digital tokens without shortening investors’ waits to cash out.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • With cinematography by Simon Sarketzis and editing by Emilios Avraam, Apart is being sold by Reinvent Yellow Sales.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In addition to editing, Chan designed 10 collections for the Glamour x Lane Bryant collaboration.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of editing

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“Laundering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laundering. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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