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Certainly, the Fifteenth was a beacon of democracy’s light because it codified that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of race.”

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I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abridged.

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The group hiked an abridged 60-mile route that started and finished in Chamonix, walking between eight and 12 miles each day, up and over mountain passes and down into valleys.

The 1973 miniseries, which aired on Swedish TV and screened internationally in an abridged feature cut, traces a tumultuous decade in the life of an upper-middle-class couple, played by Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson.

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The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook.

At the right time and in the right dose, it can ease and abridge economic maladies.

And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason, of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book.

This would serve to abridge the liberty of speech guaranteed to us by the Constitution.

We shall, however, be obliged to abridge his detailed exposition in order not to enlarge our volume beyond due limits.

Teach us to love the South and be contented here by ceasing to abridge us in such extremes in common rights and citizenship.

In one place a dammed-off deviation was being excavated, evidently to abridge an impossible bend.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abridge, such as: abbreviate, curtail, truncate, abstract, chop, and clip.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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