abridge
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In other words, to the extent that selling shirts constitutes “speech,” denying Elster an exclusive right to do so does not abridge it.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2023
In televised remarks before the cabinet session, Netanyahu said it was "unthinkable" that the government would abridge the right to demonstrate or support any violence against protesters.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023
The 15th Amendment said that neither the United States nor "any state" could deny or abridge the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
From Salon ● May 22, 2021
Some former agency officials took offense at the note, seeing it as an attempt to silence retired officers or abridge their First Amendment rights.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
“Listen, you guys published a book just after World War I. Do you think it might be a good idea for me to abridge it and we’d republish it now?”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
She abridges its plot, removing the second-generation narrative that bookends Brontë’s writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
The amendment speaks solely to governmental action that abridges free speech, not to societal actions or the actions of other individuals.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
“It does not entitle the Florida Supreme Court to adopt, or this court to endorse, a rule of judicial conduct that abridges candidates’ speech in the judicial election that the Florida Constitution prescribes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2015
“While her father abuts the tempest/ and abridges the rain.”
From Slate
Steam abridges time and space to such a degree that the world grows rapidly prosaic.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
“The Adding Machine” is often abridged to satisfy contemporary tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
The Collegiate—an abridged, more manageable version of the company’s gargantuan International edition—was introduced in 1898 and had been revised roughly every decade thereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The Precision crew offered to put me through an abridged version of the member experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
This followed a 13-part, 13-hour series—Vietnam: A Television History—that premiered on PBS over 30 years earlier, in 1983, before being rebroadcast in abridged form on public television’s American Experience in 1997.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025
“We’re doing the abridged Miss Teen Dream tonight.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The 1st Amendment guarantees only that the government refrains from abridging freedom of speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging free speech, as well as from establishing an official religion or limiting religious liberty.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024
Founding-era dictionaries define abridging as a reduction or diminishment.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2023
All abridging remarks and other comments will be in this fancy italic type so you’ll know.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Vocabulary lists containing abridge
The Bill of Rights
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19th Amendment (1920)
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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