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abridged

[uh-brijd] / əˈbrɪdʒd /






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The Precision crew offered to put me through an abridged version of the member experience.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

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

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

Somewhere deep in the Heart of Stone, I relaxed, glad that the master’s irritation was based on Hemme’s angrily abridged version of the truth.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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