How to Use unabridged in a Sentence
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Gabriel Gorodetsky’s edition — abridged and unabridged — is a work for the ages.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
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Get ready to hear Britney Spears’ unabridged side of the story.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2022
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The sight of the word sent me straight to the unabridged dictionary to find the precise English equivalent.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2020
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Later this year, Faber in the U.K. will publish the first volume of Plath’s unabridged letters.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 30 June 2017
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An unabridged version of this story is available at www.calmatters.org.
—Laurel Rosenhall, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
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Janice limply heaves the thick unabridged dictionary into the metal trash can at the corner of Vandam and crosses the street.
—Miles Marshall Lewis, The Root, 18 Mar. 2018
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This is an unabridged assortment of Manchester United memes from the last week.
—SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
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Below are their unabridged answers, which were each limited to 100 words.
—oregonlive, 4 May 2022
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My family’s one and only hard cover was an unabridged dictionary that weighed about 1,000 pounds.
—Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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And maybe, as Murakami has requested, his early works will one day be made available in English unabridged.
—Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
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Perhaps the greatest contribution Ford makes is to offer her story — written in the most lively and lucid prose — in its most raw and unabridged form.
—Washington Post, 25 June 2021
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Deep in the forests of northwestern Jamaica, a secluded cave has sheltered an unabridged account of the environment since the early Bronze Age.
—Richard Kemeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
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Those passages were censored by her father before the diary was first published in 1947 but became available in more recent unabridged editions.
—Fox News, 16 May 2018
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Lynch tells the very complete and unabridged story of her childhood in the housing projects of South Boston and her rise as a top chef in the city, capturing some of the most delightful and truly terrible things that can happen in life.
—Barbara Lynch, Bon Appetit, 5 Apr. 2017
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Lynch tells the very complete and unabridged story of her childhood in the housing projects of South Boston and her rise as a top chef in the city, capturing some of the most delightful and truly terrible things that can happen in life.
—Barbara Lynch, Bon Appetit, 5 Apr. 2017
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Jay Collert of Friendship, Md., once saw a guy on the Beltway driving a big delivery truck — the kind with an extra-large steering wheel — flipping through what appeared to be a library-size unabridged dictionary.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
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Her mother, a former schoolteacher with a love of language, kept an unabridged Random House dictionary on an antique high chair, setting it outside the dining room for ease of access.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
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In the unabridged gentrification thesaurus, Whole Foods is a universal synonym for white people.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Sep. 2017
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The protest — proudly accessorized with swastikas, Confederate flags, and an unabridged thesaurus of slurs — was perhaps the most grotesque manifestation of bigotry since the 2016 election.
—Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 14 Aug. 2017
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Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand, exists in over 30 unabridged versions and has attracted admirable readers and only a few bunglers.
—Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
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This voluminous work is so scandalously absurd that no unabridged English version is in print today.
—Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
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Knuth methodically leafed through his family’s 2,000-page Funk & Wagnalls unabridged dictionary in the basement.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
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Set in 18th-century France and England, Heyer’s early career-making novel is again available in this country as an unabridged, downloadable audiobook.
—Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
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The release, by publisher Naxos AudioBooks, is the first commercially available unabridged recording.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
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Prince Harry's sweeping story was published in 16 languages with all print and digital formats released simultaneously, and the royal reads the book's unabridged audio edition.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
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Another extension of that close relationship was Egerton’s 11-hour unabridged audiobook narration of John’s first memoir, Me, which was released in October.
—Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
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Yet Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick does so teeming with optimism, including the prospect of an undelayed, unabridged college football season.
—Eric Hansen, Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2020
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Talented entrepreneurs like Austen should leaf through an unabridged history of fast-growing education businesses that don’t deliver on promises to students.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
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Just a presumably first-rate, uncluttered, purely dramatic interpretation of a timeless, bona-fide classic, complete and unabridged.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
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—Palena Neale, Forbes, 26 May 2021
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