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excerpt

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




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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 exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, ‘Roll the Calls,’ the Endeavor co-founder reveals the bare-knuckle strategy behind the takeover of the William Morris Agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Here is an excerpt from his acceptance speech:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

Below is an excerpt from the “National Core Arts Standards: A Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning,” which explains some of the background in their creation.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

The Daily Mirror splashes on a "war of words" and "Earl's astonishing claims" after excerpts were released.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Alternating with these vignettes are lengthy excerpts from M’s bohemian heyday of 2023—three journals and a short screenplay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In her 70s, Castañeda testified before state legislators about her experience, excerpts of which appear in the exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Here, for example, are excerpts of interviews that the University of Missouri criminologist David Klinger did with police officers for his fascinating book Into the Kill Zone.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired music is excerpted and heard on a recording, sometimes harshly produced on the hall’s reverberant sound system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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

These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms.

From Barron's ● Dec. 6, 2025

Consider the “virtually” in the letter of recommendation excerpted above.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

They also build on something search engines have already been doing, excerpting the most essential parts of existing content to save you a click.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

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

They have also accused Mr. Durham of putting forward a misleading portrayal in his indictment by selectively excerpting fragments of their clients’ emails, omitting portions that showed their clients enthusiastically supported the final analysis.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Nor in the way of Spiritual Portraiture does there, after so much writing and excerpting, anything of importance remain for me to say.

From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle




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