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a part taken from a longer work
he'll read an excerpt from the novel at the book signing
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Recent Examples of excerpts
These excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
The excerpts also suggest that Harris is casting blame on others rather than herself and her own campaign, analysts say.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The dip in reading scores appeared alongside a shift in how English and language arts are taught in schools, with an emphasis on short texts and book excerpts, said Carol Jago, associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Instead, test takers read 25- to 150-word excerpts — about the length of a social media post — and answer a single question about each.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
The dip in reading scores in 2024 appeared alongside a shift in how English and language arts are taught in schools, with an emphasis on short texts and book excerpts, said Carol Jago, associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
The excerpts appear to offer a detailed account of the day Elvis’ only child died inside a San Fernando Valley community hospital from complications surrounding a small bowel obstruction linked to a prior bariatric surgery.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Following are edited excerpts from the conversation.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
In excerpts from the journal, written using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet for English words, the suspect described her fascination with violence and obsession with mass shootings, particularly those that attacked schools.
—Marc Santia, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
The excerpts also suggest that Harris is casting blame on others rather than herself and her own campaign, analysts say.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The dip in reading scores appeared alongside a shift in how English and language arts are taught in schools, with an emphasis on short texts and book excerpts, said Carol Jago, associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Instead, test takers read 25- to 150-word excerpts — about the length of a social media post — and answer a single question about each.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
The dip in reading scores in 2024 appeared alongside a shift in how English and language arts are taught in schools, with an emphasis on short texts and book excerpts, said Carol Jago, associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
The excerpts appear to offer a detailed account of the day Elvis’ only child died inside a San Fernando Valley community hospital from complications surrounding a small bowel obstruction linked to a prior bariatric surgery.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Following are edited excerpts from the conversation.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
In excerpts from the journal, written using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet for English words, the suspect described her fascination with violence and obsession with mass shootings, particularly those that attacked schools.
—Marc Santia, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excerpts
Noun
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The internet has long been awash with fake quotations attributed to prominent personalities.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dates and quotations were unreachable, every fact revised.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
Noun
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McCurdy and his team there have watched the kratom market shift from simple leaf powder to concentrated extracts and now to semi-synthetic compounds like 7-OH.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
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The fact that this balm’s blend of hyaluronic microspheres, glycerin, and fruit extracts treats lips to long-lasting, intense levels of moisture.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In court, the justices were shown the document, codenamed Operation Green and Yellow Dagger, with key passages highlighted.—
Júlia Dias Carneiro,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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But then come the passages of cockeyed brilliance—such as this one, yoking Nicholas’s philosophical meditation on the nature of subjective perception to the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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TikTok prohibits gory, gruesome or extremely violent clips.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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It’s constructed from 100 percent silicone and features slotted holes and stainless steel clips that easily attach to any pot, pan, or skillet.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
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Larry Brooks, who lives a block away from the attack, was also given four citations on the day of Broadbelt’s death for not having rabbies vaccines and unregistered dogs.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Invest in natural language query tools with visual explanations (graph traversal, source citations).—
Daniel Fallmann,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Excerpts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excerpts. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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