as in quotation
a part taken from a longer work
he'll read an excerpt from the novel at the book signing
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 May 2025
As teams start preparing for the 2025 NFL season, the 23-year-old quarterback is pushing back on an excerpt from a forthcoming book that claims Williams and his family had reservations about signing with the team.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 29 May 2025
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 23 May 2025
And yet the reaction to that New York Magazine excerpt was wild.
—Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 May 2025
As teams start preparing for the 2025 NFL season, the 23-year-old quarterback is pushing back on an excerpt from a forthcoming book that claims Williams and his family had reservations about signing with the team.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 29 May 2025
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 23 May 2025
And yet the reaction to that New York Magazine excerpt was wild.
—Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
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The author also varies the texture of the book by inserting poems, quotations, dramatic dialogue, a veiled account of her unhappy days at boarding school, and a lengthy digression on the German mystic Friederike Hauffe, who claimed to be clairvoyant and to communicate with spirits.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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This crackling movie begins with what some might take for a bit of misdirection: a quotation from a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky, the father of the great filmmaker Andrei.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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An extract from a play, in which two male actors disguised as old ladies comment on one another’s sagging bosoms, elicited the wrong kind of laughter from school children at Cannes — so maybe kids are not the ideal audience.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 June 2025
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From Integration Focus To Value Focus For years, enterprises have invested billions in data initiatives—building massive extract, transform and load (ETL) pipelines and complex data lakes—often with underwhelming returns.—
Indivar Nayyar,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Now, with the passage of the House settlement, schools will be directly paying players and focusing even more on having their athletics departments make money.—
Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of five new laws.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more!—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
13 June 2025
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Forget drill, baby, drill; at current prices America’s drillers have been mothballing rigs at a rapid clip to preserve capital.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Incorporate citations, expert commentary and topical depth to build trust with AI systems.—
Nick Brown,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Cervantes strenuously denied driving while impaired after news of her citation became known.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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Such a life of snippets from childhood to young adulthood shows the initial foundation of a journey driven by great wine and fantastic food, shared in an atmosphere of generosity and wonderment.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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The most potent moments tend to occur on the periphery of the action, in snippets featuring the billionaires’ downstairs courtier class, the assistants and lawyers who hustle at the corners of Hugo’s mansion.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
4 June 2025
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“Excerpt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excerpt. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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