abridged
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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
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
What I have provided hardly qualifies as a synthesis but more as an abridged list of a few messages that may emerge if we stop and reflect.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025
I’ve seen two in my lifetime, both of them wisely abridged into two parts.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2024
So she’s learned to tell an abridged version.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
