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abridged

[uh-brijd] / əˈbrɪdʒd /






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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

I first encountered Louisa May Alcott in an abridged children’s edition of “Little Women” that was brimming with pastel illustrations and tidy moral lessons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

This followed a 13-part, 13-hour series—Vietnam: A Television History—that premiered on PBS over 30 years earlier, in 1983, before being rebroadcast in abridged form on public television’s American Experience in 1997.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025

Dunthorne had access to the German original, about 1,800 typewritten pages, as well as to a translated, abridged version distributed to family members.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

The following is an abridged version of the first column to run after the Columbine massacre.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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