abridgment

variants or abridgement

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Recent Examples of abridgment The firm sued, calling the order a violation of the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process - a requirement for the government to use a fair legal process. Mike Scarcella and David Thomas, USA Today, 3 May 2025 The court later ruled that Congress’ efforts to impose similar limits with respect to noncitizens being detained at Guantanamo Bay under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were an unconstitutional abridgment of habeas corpus rights. Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025 Nationalism has been a liberating force, but it has also been exploited to justify the abridgment of rights. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abridgment
Noun
  • The academy provides participants with an overview of the department and a behind-the-scenes look at police operations, according to the release.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) have a state-by-state overview of pharmacist vaccination authority regulations here.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For last weekend’s season-opening slate of games, several Texas college football teams sported ribbons of their own, in the form of a special decal on players’ helmets depicting an outline of the state of Texas with a green bow at its center.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Prairie Village’s rules mirror Leawood’s, with similar outlines to age requirements for class 3 e-bikes in particular, yielding and giving audible signals to pedestrians, following manufacturer recommendations and not allowing distracted or reckless operation of the device.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The two eight-foot-tall tall black and white ceramics abstract and magnify the human figure, presented as a pair to accentuate the space and the relationship between the two heads with closed eyes and mute expressions, inviting the viewer to insert a dialogue.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • By the mid-20th century, abstracts had become ubiquitous in scholarly articles.
    Naomi S. Baron, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Just like homemade bags, each sleeve has an outer fabric ring that wraps around the cup, with a bottom piece to keep all condensation contained.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Sitting in the bar’s backyard, afternoon sun high, condensation pouring off those Shirley Temples, a joint going back and forth between Bassin and DiGesu, Winter begins to share an idea he’s had for a new live rig for his guitar.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Before the abbreviation stuck, the property was known as the Kildare Hotel and Golf Club.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These terms are abbreviations for probability: a 10-year flood is a volume of flow that occurs on average once every 10 years, based on the records of flow for that stream.
    Ellen Wohl August 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Abridgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridgment. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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