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In an excerpt from his new book, ‘What Could Possibly Go Right?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
The following excerpt of their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Take this excerpt from a 340-word soliloquy in a novel by Rebecca Goldstein.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
Kevin Bryan, a University of Toronto professor who specializes in the economics of innovation and artificial intelligence, also ran excerpts through Pangram, noting that every selection he pulled came back as 100% AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Following the release of excerpts from Spencer's new book, a source told the Sun that a "grief-stricken Charles fought for his ex-wife to have a royal funeral", the paper says.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Cars honked and shoved busily past, sending out fleeting excerpts of whatever hot new single was getting overplayed on the radio.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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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
A portion of their conversation, edited and condensed for clarity, has been excerpted below.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms.
From Barron's ● Dec. 6, 2025
It starts with ‘We, the people,’” Schwarzenegger told USC students in mid-September — a speech excerpted in an anti-Proposition 50 ad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
Consider the “virtually” in the letter of recommendation excerpted above.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
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
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
Comparison with passages preserved in the Balawat extracts shows that the work of excerpting has been badly done by the editor of the third edition.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
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