variants
or abridgements
as in overviews
a shortened version of a written work
this Italian-English pocket dictionary is an abridgment of the hardback edition
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Provide Overviews Of Data Flows And Technologies Used Organizations can be more transparent with their AI solutions by providing overviews of data flows and details on which private and public AI technologies are used.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Similar to architectural blueprints or circuit diagrams, these standardized templates provide simplified overviews of complex organizations, and can be used to turn an ailing company around, or design a healthy one from the ground up.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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Consistent messaging, for press releases, webinar abstracts, email campaigns and analyst briefings, makes life so much easier when building category leadership and brand credibility.—
Guy Murrel,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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By the mid-20th century, abstracts had become ubiquitous in scholarly articles.—
Naomi S. Baron,
The Conversation,
13 Aug. 2025
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Johnson is also weighing whether to keep his members out of Washington, further putting the onus on the Senate to accept his spending outlines without getting into the grit of health care coverage.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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This is what passes as development these days, and what comes out of the Chad Powers process is mostly lousy, a corporate exercise in content alchemy that plays like a coloring book where the outlines are already drawn.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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The first two abbreviations are easy enough to understand.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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The first two abbreviations are easy enough to understand.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Abridgments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridgments. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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