abridged

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In recent decades, leading universities have shunned the humanities as a relic of “dead White males,” reducing core requirements to abridged texts in anthologies with third-person critiques from contemporary political perspectives.

From Washington Times

The play, originally a solo work performed by Smith herself, has had many iterations since its Taper premiere in 1993, including an abridged 2000 film adaptation.

From Los Angeles Times

Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family.

From New York Times

But nearly all the liberal Jewish denominations have abridged or revised it in various ways.

From Washington Post

“I’m older and something has happened to my own voice as a writer — it’s deepened and gotten abridged and simplified at the same time,” he said with a grin.

From New York Times