as in to shorten
to make less in extent or duration
the library's hours have been drastically abridged to cut costs
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When our rights were being abridged?
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
The First Amendment, which prevents the government from making laws that abridge freedom of expression, has regularly been found to broadly protect free speech when challenges reach the Supreme Court.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
Mendez bypassed the plaintiffs’ contention that the measure unconstitutionally abridged free speech rights.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Fair Districts amendments voters added to the Florida Constitution in 2010 also said boundaries should not be drawn in a way that abridged the opportunity of minority voters to elect representatives.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
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That allowed the Panthers to shorten the game and possess the ball for 10 minutes and 32 seconds longer than the Rams, whose defenders this week admitted to being knocked off the line of scrimmage this week by the Carolina run blockers.—
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More San Francisco businesses may have their operating hours shortened as two supervisors seek to expand the city's neighborhood store curfew.—
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This production, directed by David Cromer and co-starring Namir Smallwood, also ran twice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago (with the first run curtailed by the pandemic) before moving to Broadway.—
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In virtually all cases outside of Detroit, newspapers concluded their partnerships with mergers, one partner shuttering its operations or the smaller paper dramatically curtailing operations.—
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“Abridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridge. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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