excerpts
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The eerie mood is accentuated by an introductory film projected on the distant stone and a twangy voice intoning excerpts from the Lincoln speeches etched in the atrium above ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"But some survive as copies or excerpts. Two excerpts from this particular letter survive in collections of papal rescripts."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Miraculously, just a few days shy of my 12th birthday, I spoke," he writes in the book, excerpts of which were published by The New York Times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then again, we don’t have the full context of the excerpts, so it’s hard to know for sure what we’re looking at.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
What follows are excerpts from the verbatim transcript.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
