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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

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

Thus, the majority in Mahmoud contends that storybooks like Uncle Bobby’s Wedding abridge free exercise by exerting a “coercive pressure” that undermines the plaintiffs’ ability to raise their children as they wish.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 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

Exception 2.—A few words ending in e drop the e before a suffix beginning with a consonant: as, judge + ment = judgment; lodge + ment = lodgment; abridge + ment = abridgment.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

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 forbids any law that abridges adult citizens’ right to vote because of their age.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2020

“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

Early in the 80s a new edition was given out, which omits or abridges some of the passages quoted in this chapter.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

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 Adding Machine” is often abridged to satisfy contemporary tastes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

It was a paperback prose translation, abridged, set loose from its numbers, robbed of the music of the ancient Greek but—as far as I was concerned—still a terrific read.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The three media organisations have argued that the ban breaches their rights under the First Amendment, which forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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