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excerpt

[ek-surpt, ik-surpt] / ˈɛk sɜrpt, ɪkˈsɜrpt /




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In an excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote that he’s learned “to love all parts of our Christian communion,” including those “who voted for me and those who didn’t.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Pangram is considered one of the most reliable and testing by AFP on an excerpt of "It Was Either That or Die" indicated a 100-percent probability that Orelien had used AI to produce it.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘What Could Possibly Go Right?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sam, who now lives in Swansea, has recently been looking through his care files and shared an excerpt with the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

An excerpt of Elizabeth Bentley's testimony before HUAC, in which she answers questions about Nathan Silvermaster, her main contact in Washington, DC, from Congressman John E. Rankin of Mississippi.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The book also includes excerpts from his early index cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Superagent Ari Emanuel’s new memoir, “Roll the Calls,” should have been titled “Rude, Crude and Lewd,” given all the redacted words I’ve noticed in excerpts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Unedited excerpts from the surveys, in which candidates lay out detailed goals and policy analysis, can be found at the links below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

AFP ran excerpts through other AI detection tools and came up with a variety of results -- from it being "very likely" to have been written by a human to "100 percent" AI generated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

By that time, however, stories about the dead hiker, including excerpts from his diary, had been given prominent play in newspapers across the country.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Portions of their conversation are excerpted below, edited and condensed for clarity.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The coming-of-age stories of four women the Times evacuated are chronicled in the forthcoming book “The Last Free Women,” excerpted below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

A portion of their conversation is excerpted below, edited and condensed for clarity.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025

Mullen examined the tapes and excerpted all references to the candidates, until he had 37 separate segments, each roughly two and a half seconds long.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Cowley worked his magic again in launching Jack Kerouac’s career, spending years talking up and excerpting “On the Road” in magazines before publishing the 1957 Beat touchstone with Viking to immediate acclaim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Its formula is to hire two or three reporters per city and fill out newsletters by excerpting stories from existing local outlets.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

This excerpting has a precedent in Cunningham practice.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2019

Even at 82, Steinem says the experience taught her something: “It made me understand the dangers of excerpting a few words.”

From Time ● May 5, 2016

For every one doth not know what is excerpting.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli


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