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or abridgement
as in overview
a shortened version of a written work
this Italian-English pocket dictionary is an abridgment of the hardback edition
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Recent Examples of abridgment
Thanks to CDs, and especially streaming, abridgments are now comparatively rare.
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Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
Soon enough, other companies and products entered the field for better (Recorded Books) or worse (abridgments).
—Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
One of the common frustrations of watching movies adapted from books is the inevitable abridgment of the source material.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
Nation/World As school gets underway and coronavirus cases rise, masks are returning to some American classrooms - and reviving the country’s fraught political debate over whether face coverings are common sense or an abridgment of freedom.
—Hannah Natanson, Fenit Nirappil, Maegan Vazquez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
Escalating the conflict over the teaching of race, the American Federation of Teachers’ New Hampshire affiliate filed a lawsuit Monday charging that the state’s new law, restricting certain lessons, is unconstitutionally vague and an abridgment of free speech.
—Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
Worcester’s abridgment of Webster appeared in 1829, and then Worcester’s own dictionary in 1830.
—Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
Project Veritas also sent a letter to Politico stating its views on the news outlet’s abridgment.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
But Oakeshott’s most vehement critique of rationalism was its abridgment of the poetic aspect of the human condition.
—Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
Soon enough, other companies and products entered the field for better (Recorded Books) or worse (abridgments).
—Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
One of the common frustrations of watching movies adapted from books is the inevitable abridgment of the source material.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
Nation/World As school gets underway and coronavirus cases rise, masks are returning to some American classrooms - and reviving the country’s fraught political debate over whether face coverings are common sense or an abridgment of freedom.
—Hannah Natanson, Fenit Nirappil, Maegan Vazquez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
Escalating the conflict over the teaching of race, the American Federation of Teachers’ New Hampshire affiliate filed a lawsuit Monday charging that the state’s new law, restricting certain lessons, is unconstitutionally vague and an abridgment of free speech.
—Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
Worcester’s abridgment of Webster appeared in 1829, and then Worcester’s own dictionary in 1830.
—Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
Project Veritas also sent a letter to Politico stating its views on the news outlet’s abridgment.
—Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
But Oakeshott’s most vehement critique of rationalism was its abridgment of the poetic aspect of the human condition.
—Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abridgment
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Deliverables • Executive Summary Report: Provides a high-level overview of the audit’s key findings and potential accessibility risks.Ran Ronen, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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An overview of their argument was published on Monday on the website of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank where Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and Greene is a senior research fellow.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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As with the exterior, there are plenty of Tiffany Green accents, including on the headliner, which features an outline of the Yas Marina circuit where the Abu Dhabi GP is held.Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
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More:Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy outline plan for 'large-scale firings' in federal workforce under Trump The new king of the digital town square lobbied for Trump and right-wing issues.Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
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The journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is looking for abstracts for a Special Collection on citizen science in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM).Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
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The artwork ranges from the abstract to representational to expressionistic in nature.Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
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López told our group of nine how the ancient Romans had used the tunnels as escape routes from invaders, then grabbed a few of the mysterious bottles, wiped off the condensation, and led us out into the sunlight to taste them.Megan Lloyd, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
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And so it’s characterized by the condensation of chromatin, or of the DNA, inside the nucleus.Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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The pages are covered with private abbreviations, mysterious drawings of circles and triangles in a range of configurations, phrases and bullet lists of words with no obvious connection: magic, virtues, initiation, rebirth, evil, success.Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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Its notifications, which follow a format established in 1924, are written in ALL CAPS and filled with cryptic abbreviations.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Abridgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridgment. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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