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 Thanks to CDs, and especially streaming, abridgments are now comparatively rare. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abridgment
Noun
  • For those who need a refresher, here is an overview of the business that has already been conducted in the Premier League during the summer 2025 transfer window… so far.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Content Creation Opportunities To be included in an AI overview your content has to be relevant and useful.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond his policy work, Kindleberger is best known for ‘Mania’s, Panics and Crashes’, the best outline of how asset bubbles form and are followed by crashes.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In Alaska, Putin gave Trump his outline of a peace plan, which required the Ukrainian army to withdraw from the Donbas in exchange for a freezing of the front line in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the mid-20th century, abstracts had become ubiquitous in scholarly articles.
    Naomi S. Baron, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But for the Heat, where the team stands when a Herro extension would kick in for 2027-28 remains an abstract.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • One more beer, condensation rolling down the can in the lazy swell of this fine summer afternoon.
    Kristen Arnett August 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There are telltale signs that there's too much moisture in your house, from condensation to unpleasant odors.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In the case of Algorithmic Intelligence, a nice touch is that the AI abbreviation would be a helpful carryover.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025

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“Abridgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridgment. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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