abridgement

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Board member Karin Freeman, who also voted against the ban, called it “misleading” at best and an abridgement of free speech and censorship at worst.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2022

Section 2 prohibits any voting practice that “results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2021

When the group labeled McKinley the only unacceptable Republican presidential candidate in 1896, he responded that he would not “countenance any abridgement of the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2018

Clinton was considerably more detailed in her actual speech, but the air of unreality that infused Podesta’s buzzy abridgement hung over the talk.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2015

“I can’t say for sure; I’ve never done an abridgement before. Just tell me what you think they’d do?”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman