Thesaurus results for EXCERPTS

excerpts

noun

plural of excerpt

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a part taken from a longer work he'll read an excerpt from the novel at the book signing

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Recent Examples of excerpts In 2018, Stephen Marks put together a commercial that highlighted excerpts from the sit-down while running against Salazar in the Republican primary for Florida’s 27th congressional district. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026 These are edited excerpts from the conversation, which includes spoilers. — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Justice’s involvement in GTA extends a run of previews that have already featured excerpts of its music, including the game’s earlier extended look. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2026 Former president Barack Obama expressed surprise at Democrats’ expanding midterm map at a private fundraiser Wednesday night, but warned donors not to get complacent about the party’s chances, according to excerpts provided to The Washington Post. — Liz Goodwin, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026 Featuring 20-minute excerpts, the presentations offer the buyers, festival representatives, and funders attending both IDFA Forum and Docs for Sale an early look at projects nearing completion. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 An affidavit within the complaint includes excerpts of chat logs between Bryant and Van Rootselaar on the Discord website. — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 Ahead of Swan Song hitting bookshelves on September 22, multiple outlets published explosive excerpts from the book. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026 At a press conference, school board member Frank Martin read excerpts from the novel out loud, focusing on a passage where one of Vonnegut’s characters, Kilgore Trout, reimagines the story of Christ’s crucifixion. — Susan Farrell, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

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Others have created a multimodal version of it using text, images, quotations, citations, audio, video, or other media to show how the idea is inherited, transformed, contested, and reimagined.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
Executives already use it to process immense volumes of invoices, orders, contracts and supplier quotations in seconds.

— Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of quotations

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Scanning and measuring these runs extracts the unwritten rules of soil mechanics, turning them into precise, repeatable physics algorithms no simulation alone can generate.

— Ronald Bisio, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Laboratory and animal studies have shown that butterfly pea plant extracts have antidiabetic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, diuretic, antidepressant, and memory-boosting properties.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracts

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Many passages begin in a straightforward way, with the setting of a scene and the promise of dramatic action.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Digging through old family books, Jaipuria came across the Sri Tattva Nidhi, a compilation of art, music, and literary passages put together by Krishna Raja Wodeyar III, one of the Mysore maharajas.

— Nuriyah Johar, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of passages

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Instead of bringing Macdonald’s contemporaries in for original sit-downs, Apatow goes to the clips from countless podcasts and video shows in which those contemporaries reflected on and celebrated Macdonald.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
For years, posting clips online has been integral to comedians’ process of building an audience and selling tickets to their live shows.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

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