abridged

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I first encountered Louisa May Alcott in an abridged children’s edition of “Little Women” that was brimming with pastel illustrations and tidy moral lessons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Signed in 1965 after years of organizing and unimaginable sacrifice, it was meant to realize the constitutional promise that the right to vote would not be denied or abridged on account of race.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2025

What I have provided hardly qualifies as a synthesis but more as an abridged list of a few messages that may emerge if we stop and reflect.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025

Dunthorne had access to the German original, about 1,800 typewritten pages, as well as to a translated, abridged version distributed to family members.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson