excised

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As for why some material was excised, the reasons vary.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Ms. McCracken has now collected the 280 excised notes and compiled them into a sometimes useful, always charming book roughly equal in length to the original novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

These excised lines from the Farewell Address serve not only as a warning but as a prescient prophecy of the political turmoil and factionalism that would later shape the nation’s history.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025

Weismann had surgically excised the tails of five generations of mice, then bred the mice to determine if the offspring would be born tailless.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee