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excerpt
[ noun ek-surpt; verb ik-surpt, ek-surpt ]
noun
- a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
verb (used with object)
- to take or select (a passage) from a book, film, or the like; extract.
- to take or select passages from (a book, film, or the like); abridge by choosing representative sections.
excerpt
noun
- a part or passage taken from a book, speech, play, etc, and considered on its own; extract
verb
- tr to take (a part or passage) from a book, speech, play, etc
Derived Forms
- exˈcerptible, adjective
- exˈcerption, noun
- exˈcerptor, noun
Other Words From
- ex·cerpter ex·cerptor noun
- ex·cerpti·ble adjective
- ex·cerption noun
- unex·cerpted adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of excerpt1
Example Sentences
You can find excerpts below, or listen to the full interview on the show’s podcast feed.
During the event, the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica presented excerpts in both original text and plain language.
You can find a selection of excerpts below, or listen to the full interview on the show’s podcast feed.
An excerpt from our interview, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows.
This is an excerpt from The Washington Post political newsletter The Daily 202.
At that same conference in D.C. where she met Saa, Gurira performed an excerpt from Eclipsed.
The following excerpt is printed here with the permission of the University Press of Kentucky.
Here, an excerpt from a new book that details her path to revenge and its unintended aftermath.
In an excerpt from his autobiography, he describes the reaction.
In an excerpt from 'What We Won,' the story of Abdul Rashid Dostum.
This not very complex proposition may read like an excerpt from a French grammar, but it is the epitome of the whole argument.
Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis conclusiones phisic, &c. ex Aristotele excerpt.
From her long melodious lamentation we give one continuous excerpt here.
Reading it as an excerpt indeed one need hardly wish to see beyond the form or material figure.
The excerpt printed last was written at the time when she professed to entertain both beliefs.
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