This appears to be an upgrade from the original Conspiracy. If children do swear, the word is bleeped. In the Xanth series novel Yon Ill Wind, The Adult Conspiracy magically censors swearwords so that children will not hear them.At least one character shouts "What the bleep?!" in confusion. In the Artemis Fowl series, particularly the eighth book, The Last Guardian, "bleep" itself seems to be an actual Gnommish profanity.Given the context, it's likely the word that was covered up was "shit". As they pass Snape, Ron stubs his toe and swears. The teachers are patrolling the corridors at night due to the monster attacks, but Team Harry has to sneak out to do something so they drape Harry's Invisibility Cloak over themselves. Although “bastard” is used twice in the seventh book, once by Aberforth Dumbledore and once by Ron. For once she didn't pay attention to Jordan's language (or favoritism, or any other junk Jordan pulls regularly while commentating). In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lee Jordan calls a player on the opposing team a "filthy, cheating bastard", but in print, only the "b" part is heard, as Professor McGonagall's own shouting at the player drowns it out.This WSIB PSA uses it for comedy at the end.The white-coated scientist comes in and says, "At Rockwell, we have a whole department so you don't end up with bleeping tools you can't use." Rockwell tools shows a guy complaining because he can't use his tool (from some other company).This '90s commercial for Designer Imposters, with Ali Larter.They actually double the use of this trope in that the actors are saying "beep" instead of cursing.The commercials for "Powermat" has the sound that the Powermat makes when it starts charging something to censor the actors' cursing.A 2008 Macintosh commercial has PC explaining that Microsoft is no longer using the term "Vista", and pressing a Big Red Button to attempt to bleep Mac whenever he says the word, with little success.
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