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abridged

[uh-brijd] / əˈbrɪdʒd /






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And it can think coherently for so long that even an abridged version of the model’s “chain of thought” ran more than 75,000 words—the length of the first “Harry Potter” book.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 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

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

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




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