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Another provision, the Privileges or Immunities Clause, declares that no state “shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The government may abridge those rights only by establishing that the LPR fits within one of the exceptions.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

In televised remarks before the cabinet session, Netanyahu said it was "unthinkable" that the government would abridge the right to demonstrate or support any violence against protesters.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023

That she was just as good as any state legislator, and possessed certain rights they could not abridge!

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

The producers hope to abridge Philip’s nine-hour opera about an engineer who tries to bridge the Grand Canyon. accept/except.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

She abridges its plot, removing the second-generation narrative that bookends Brontë’s writing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

The amendment speaks solely to governmental action that abridges free speech, not to societal actions or the actions of other individuals.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2022

“It does not entitle the Florida Supreme Court to adopt, or this court to endorse, a rule of judicial conduct that abridges candidates’ speech in the judicial election that the Florida Constitution prescribes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2015

“While her father abuts the tempest/ and abridges the rain.”

From Slate

Still, despite the vigorous arguments against the doctrine, there remains the innate feeling and a general belief that society abridges individual rights instead of conferring them.

From Concerning Justice by Lucilius A. Emery

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

The Precision crew offered to put me through an abridged version of the member experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

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

“Article V: A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.”

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025

I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature’s immensity in the womb of this abridged atom.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press - language that courts have traditionally interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Advocates of originalism say this sort of backward-looking reasoning is the only way to prevent modern judges or legislatures from abridging individual rights ratified in the Constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

The 1st Amendment guarantees only that the government refrains from abridging freedom of speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging free speech, as well as from establishing an official religion or limiting religious liberty.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024

My father read it to me, and I just quick skimmed along, crossing out whole sections when I did the abridging, leaving everything just as it was in the original Morgenstern.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman