abridged
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“The Adding Machine” is often abridged to satisfy contemporary tastes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
In 1991, Knopf published an abridged version of the journals with the Cheever family’s assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 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
There are abridged biographies of certain people throughout the book.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024
I picked up the terms when Mr. Owen made us read an abridged version of Moby- Dick in ninth grade.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
