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Six example sentences with abridge, each labelled with its topic.
Her publisher wanted to abridge the novel by a third, cutting the shipboard chapters that readers later remembered best.
Literature
Radio stations abridged the nine-minute track to three, dropping the long instrumental bridge so it fit between advertisements.
Music
Scribes abridged the chronicle for traveling readers, keeping the battles and the harvest failures but leaving out the genealogies.
History
The publisher abridged the code for students, keeping the main statutes and dropping the hundreds of procedural notes.
Law
The screenwriter abridged the five-hour play to two, keeping every plot turn while trimming the long courtroom speeches.
Movies
Most students read an abridged edition of the treatise, which keeps the core argument but omits the replies to critics.
Philosophy
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