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The government may abridge those rights only by establishing that the LPR fits within one of the exceptions.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

In televised remarks before the cabinet session, Netanyahu said it was "unthinkable" that the government would abridge the right to demonstrate or support any violence against protesters.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023

That she was just as good as any state legislator, and possessed certain rights they could not abridge!

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

The 15th Amendment said that neither the United States nor "any state" could deny or abridge the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

From Salon ● May 22, 2021

If you’re going to abridge a book in the author’s own words, you can’t go around sticking your own in.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

She abridges its plot, removing the second-generation narrative that bookends Brontë’s writing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

The amendment speaks solely to governmental action that abridges free speech, not to societal actions or the actions of other individuals.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2022

It also forbids any law that abridges adult citizens’ right to vote because of their age.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2020

“It does not entitle the Florida Supreme Court to adopt, or this court to endorse, a rule of judicial conduct that abridges candidates’ speech in the judicial election that the Florida Constitution prescribes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2015

The student should feel that, in disobeying the rightful authority of the college, he abridges the rights and privileges of every student.

From Colleges in America by John Marshall Barker

And it can think coherently for so long that even an abridged version of the model’s “chain of thought” ran more than 75,000 words—the length of the first “Harry Potter” book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

In 1991, Knopf published an abridged version of the journals with the Cheever family’s assistance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Signed in 1965 after years of organizing and unimaginable sacrifice, it was meant to realize the constitutional promise that the right to vote would not be denied or abridged on account of race.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2025

There are abridged biographies of certain people throughout the book.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

Somewhere deep in the Heart of Stone, I relaxed, glad that the master’s irritation was based on Hemme’s angrily abridged version of the truth.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s an American flag inscribed with the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2025

The 1st Amendment guarantees only that the government refrains from abridging freedom of speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging free speech, as well as from establishing an official religion or limiting religious liberty.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024

My father read it to me, and I just quick skimmed along, crossing out whole sections when I did the abridging, leaving everything just as it was in the original Morgenstern.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman