excised
Example Sentences
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The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As for why some material was excised, the reasons vary.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
Some of the writers of the articles either excised the phrase “minimizing its ideological threat” or seemed to pretend it didn’t exist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
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
Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
