abridge
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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
Of course, the Constitution contemplates that democracy is the appropriate process for change, so long as that process does not abridge fundamental rights .
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025
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
If you’re going to abridge a book in the author’s own words, you can’t go around sticking your own in.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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 also brazenly abridges physicians’ freedom of speech.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2019
“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
Mr. Bartlett in his 'Dictionary' merely abridges Pickering.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
“The Adding Machine” is often abridged to satisfy contemporary tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
The Collegiate—an abridged, more manageable version of the company’s gargantuan International edition—was introduced in 1898 and had been revised roughly every decade thereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
In 1991, Knopf published an abridged version of the journals with the Cheever family’s assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Signed in 1965 after years of organizing and unimaginable sacrifice, it was meant to realize the constitutional promise that the right to vote would not be denied or abridged on account of race.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2025
An abridged book, for instance, is a condensed version.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The First Amendment to the US Constitution forbids Congress from "abridging" the freedom of the press.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
All abridging remarks and other comments will be in this fancy italic type so you’ll know.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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The Bill of Rights
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19th Amendment (1920)
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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