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
  • Just Kids opens with an interview with the historian Susan Stryker, one of a handful of talking heads featured in the doc, who offers an overview of the issues facing transgender people in the United States.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
  • Very few details are locked in, but senators received an overview of the general direction the provisions in the bill are taking.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The president did not detail specific asks or outline how negotiations could proceed following the U.S. strikes.
    Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, 22 June 2025
  • The Athletic reported in March that Silver would pitch the NBA Board of Governors with the outline of a plan to launch a new pro basketball league in Europe within the next couple of years.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • More than 5,000 research abstracts were presented or published at ASCO by pharmaceutical giants, biotech companies, researchers and oncologists.
    Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 3 June 2025
  • For a long time our discussions about AI have been dominated by the abstract, focusing on algorithms and data sets, reasoning and coding.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, wet windows can accumulate condensation overnight, potentially ruining your hard work.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
  • Because there’s not as much condensation flowing through the air conditioner, researchers haven’t noticed as many microbes brewing on AC units there, Peccia notes.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Maestro Dobel launched here in the U.S. in 2003 ,and is named after its founder, Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta (sometimes known as Juan Dobel, which is an abbreviation of his middle and last names).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 13 June 2025
  • Searching for a symptom or condition in the provider finder tool frequently fails to bring back any content—especially if misspelled or entered as an abbreviation.
    Graham Gardner, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025

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“Abridgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridgment. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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