abridgment
Example Sentences
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“Twitter is a private company, and ‘the First Amendment applies only to governmental abridgments of speech, and not to allege abridgments by private companies,’” the judge wrote.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2022
Mr. Hecht insisted that customers of Books on Tape receive no abridgments.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022
The traditional view of these statutes as regulations of conduct with incidental, justifiable abridgments of speech is already fading away.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2022
But the company is also afoot with its Backyard Bard program, a series of shorter Shakespeare abridgments, each one condensed into an hour and sporting a very busy cast of four.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2019
Although it could only have been through the medium of translations or abridgments, he already seems to have made some acquaintance with the works of the Greeks.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
Vocabulary lists containing abridgment
Novel Study: Hamlet, Acts 1–2
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Understanding Literary Forms: The Oral Tradition & Analyze Literature
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