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In this excerpt from the film, Joe celebrates the fact that his son attends a prestigious college.
The website posted a new interview with make-up artist Scott Taylor and here is an excerpt.
Her latest novel is called "The Air We Breathe" and you can read an excerpt on our website.
The following excerpt from a March 2018 article clearly illustrates his bias.
The dance is set to excerpts from Bach's "Goldberg Variations".

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Pieces of writing
annotation
biographic
blog post
caption
Chyron
creative writing
cutting
draft
femslash
intertextual
intertextuality
intertextually
juvenilia
legend
passage
self-portrait
thought piece
transcript
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excerpt
verb[ I or T ]
mainly USuk /ekˈsɜːpt/ us /ekˈsɝːpt/
to take a small part from a speech, book, film, etc. in order to publish it separately:
be excerpted fromThis passage has been excerpted from her latest novel.
excerpt fromHere I excerpt from a list of recommendations given to me by a former boss.
This story is excerpted from the new book The Mind At Work.
The article is excerpted from New Scientist magazine.
Please remember that these texts have been excerpted and may lack context.
I came across the following. I have excerpted it for brevity's sake.
He claimed they spent too much time excerpting from left-wing periodicals and not enough on original research.

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filtration
fish something out
gouge something out
peel
root something out/up
rout someone out
scoop something out
slice
slice something off
snowploughing
wipe

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excerpt | American Dictionary

excerpt
noun[ C ]
us/ˈek·sɜrpt, ˈeɡ·zɜrpt/
writing
a short part taken from a speech, book, etc.

excerpt

verb[ T ]us/ekˈsɜrpt, eɡˈzɜrpt/
This article is excerpted from the full report.

Examples of excerpt

excerpt
Finally, an excerpt including ascending and descending parts of the sweep is played.
All these excerpts are heard diegetically, either in rehearsal or in the recording studio, with character interactions always paralleling the symbolic instrumental interactions.
However, since these compilations represent excerpts from accounts which are unevenly conserved, any attempt at counting words or other exercises in quantification are superfluous.
The photographs are accompanied by hundreds of excerpts from the press: letters to the editor, editorials, short news items.
A few headlines and excerpts of reports from the print media will illustrate this.
The adverbial nakanaka occurs three times in this excerpt.
In an interesting excerpt from natural conversation, he shows how speakers negotiate the meaning of the term "open" in the context of a service establishment.
In the following excerpt, the customer likewise produces an iconic hand gesture in combination with a term.
An appendix of some sixty pages of translated excerpts from several responsa collections is a welcome addition.
Finally, several excerpts from compositions illustrate applications of the designs.
The musical excerpts in the first part of the installation were taken from well-known compositions of the electroacoustic repertoire and are listed in the table.
Some sampler releases only contain excerpts of compositions.
Even more, there is an entanglement of excerpts sharing similar content attributed to di#erent authors.
This excerpt provides insights into the various factors involved in the interactive process, highlighting the callee's crucial role in the accomplishment of collaborative identification.
It would seem from this excerpt that bells performed not only a practical, but also a devotional function.
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