abridgment
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In the Fourth Circuit’s interpretation, South Carolina’s law is an abridgment of that right to franchise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The Supreme Court ruled without dissenting opinions that the law did not violate the US Constitution's First Amendment protection against government abridgment of free speech.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Fred Korematsu, a U.S. citizen, had been arrested in 1942 for defying the exclusion order and fought the abridgment of his civil liberties for forty years.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
I missed a new, family-friendly abridgment of Massenet’s fairy-dust “Cendrillon.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2022
“We have to read an abridgment, and it’s still a hundred and sixty pages long.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing abridgment
Novel Study: Hamlet, Acts 1–2
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