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
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
I would love to hear an abridged history of soy/tamari, as well as what led to your family originally becoming involved in the practice?
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024
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
Vocabulary lists containing abridged
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Eight
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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
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