as in entire
not shortened by leaving out some parts; not abridged
an unabridged reprint of a novel an unabridged dictionary
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Recent Examples of unabridged
Leveraging social media-style technologies within corporations can enhance employee engagement and provide unabridged authentic feedback, which can be analyzed with AI to gain valuable insights into employee needs.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Yet many cookbooks are devoted to unabridged endgames.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024
The unabridged Taiwanese edition of Gao’s essays is sometimes shared among readers as a PDF, but some mainland readers have trouble with the standard Chinese characters that are used on the island.
—Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
While some commercials are clearly trimmed for the sake of funnier supercuts (and there are some very amusing ads here), most play out unabridged and with otherwise nothing else in the way of additional tampering by the filmmakers.
—Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2024
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Yet many cookbooks are devoted to unabridged endgames.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024
The unabridged Taiwanese edition of Gao’s essays is sometimes shared among readers as a PDF, but some mainland readers have trouble with the standard Chinese characters that are used on the island.
—Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
While some commercials are clearly trimmed for the sake of funnier supercuts (and there are some very amusing ads here), most play out unabridged and with otherwise nothing else in the way of additional tampering by the filmmakers.
—Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabridged
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After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a single spider, eating any weakened or recently deceased insects that have been caught by their host – all while adorned in a grisly collection of body parts.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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In the wake of the accident, Renner says his entire outlook on life has shifted.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Teams may resist new workflows or technologies, requiring extensive training and communication efforts.—
Prashanthi Kolluru,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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When the Cowboy Carter tour kicks off tonight, the audience, some of whom are already lined up outside the stadium, will be the first to hear selections from the extensive album track list live.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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Glyphosate is used widely as an integral part of raising crops including corn, soybeans and cotton genetically modified to resist its killer effect, and as a desiccant on potatoes, sugar beets, wheat and other crops just before harvest.—
John Klar,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Apr. 2025
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In Super Nintendo World, for example, restaurants and stores are integral parts of the narrative journey — offering moments of discovery and interaction, not simply transactions.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Canary Mission, a hard-line pro-Israel group, compiled an exhaustive online dossier cataloging his activism, with screenshots of his social media pages and selective quotes from his speeches on campus and media interviews.—
Anvee Bhutani,
New York Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Lawyers said the aim of immigration authorities is to encourage immigrants to leave on their own terms, saving the government the exhaustive resources needed to carry out arrests, detentions and deportations.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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The core of that side is still intact, with eight of the starters from the 2023 final — a narrow 1-0 defeat by Manchester City — still at the club.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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The town is intact, and the wall is being refortified.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2025
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And the energy was New York, 100 percent pure and uncut, right off the streets.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Cowrie shells and uncut red-and-black bead tubes manufactured in the 17th century reflect the vast profits Britain piled up from the West African slave trade by trafficking enslaved people to plantations in the Caribbean.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Apr. 2025
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