Definition of ABRIDGMENT (original) (raw)

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this Italian-English pocket dictionary is an abridgment of the hardback edition

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Thanks to CDs, and especially streaming, abridgments are now comparatively rare. —Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024 Soon enough, other companies and products entered the field for better (Recorded Books) or worse (abridgments). —Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024 One of the common frustrations of watching movies adapted from books is the inevitable abridgment of the source material. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023 Nation/World As school gets underway and coronavirus cases rise, masks are returning to some American classrooms - and reviving the country’s fraught political debate over whether face coverings are common sense or an abridgment of freedom. —Hannah Natanson, Fenit Nirappil, Maegan Vazquez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023 Escalating the conflict over the teaching of race, the American Federation of Teachers’ New Hampshire affiliate filed a lawsuit Monday charging that the state’s new law, restricting certain lessons, is unconstitutionally vague and an abridgment of free speech. —Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021 Worcester’s abridgment of Webster appeared in 1829, and then Worcester’s own dictionary in 1830. —Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Project Veritas also sent a letter to Politico stating its views on the news outlet’s abridgment. —Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021 But Oakeshott’s most vehement critique of rationalism was its abridgment of the poetic aspect of the human condition. —Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020