abridgment

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In 1952 Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas published a four-volume abridgment of his diaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The Supreme Court ruled without dissenting opinions that the law did not violate the US Constitution's First Amendment protection against government abridgment of free speech.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

Fred Korematsu, a U.S. citizen, had been arrested in 1942 for defying the exclusion order and fought the abridgment of his civil liberties for forty years.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

I missed a new, family-friendly abridgment of Massenet’s fairy-dust “Cendrillon.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

“We have to read an abridgment, and it’s still a hundred and sixty pages long.”

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt