NounAmong the excerpts and Twitter feeds and author interviews … there was the actor Will Smith praising The Alchemist as one of his favorite books. Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review, 18 Oct. 2009When his [Thomas Jefferson's] wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Walter Kim, Time, 5 July 2004The exemplary figure here is Norman Mailer, whose 1959 Advertisements for Myself is the height of writerly chutzpah. The book, comprising excerpts from his journalism and fiction, descriptions of the agonies he went through to produce them and obsessive reviews of his reviewers, is so shameless it's admirable. Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review, 17 June 2001… I also keep a pad by the side of my bed for writing down great thoughts at night without having to turn on the light. In the morning, these great thoughts sound like excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Bill Cosby, Time Flies, (1987) 1988 She read an excerpt from the play. I've read only excerpts of Moby-Dick, never the whole book. VerbThe fiction that the magazine does publish is too often excerpted from novels or imminently forthcoming collections, making the magazine seem more a flack for publishers than a site of editorial strength and vision. Vince Passaro, Harper's, August 1999How quickly does the Net move? Last Friday journalist Michael Colton posted an elaborate Web parody of the forthcoming magazine Talk, which is owned by Miramax and helmed by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown. Within hours, the site's URL had ricocheted about in countless e-mails, and the Drudge Report had excerpted the text.Newsweek, 26 July 1999See More
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In the below excerpt from the commentary, Lutz identifies this as a new culture of passive aggression that has developed in the workplace. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022 In the excerpt, James also recalled the impact that anxiety had on her life prior to finding out her cancer diagnosis. Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2022 McCurdy never explicitly identifies The Creator in the excerpt. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022 Head over to Vanity Fair’s website to read the book excerpt in its entirety. Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022 Admittedly the lyrical beauty of that variation resulted in overexposure of the excerpt, almost like a pop ballad. Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022 The website excerpt either provided the business case justification for diversity suggesting diversity will improve the bottom line, a fairness justification which suggests moral and fairness reasons for diversity or no justification at all. Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 20 June 2022 The excerpt contained testimony of former US attorney general William Barr, but also a clip of Trump promoting lies about the election on the Fox Business news channel, the New York Times reported.BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022 In the excerpt, Shannon recalls the scary days that followed. Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2022
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And, which Vogue was privileged to excerpt in the November issue. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021 In other words, Google's copying of API code was OK in the same way that Data Sheet can excerpt reporting from across the web without fear of getting sued. Robert Hackett, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021 This analysis was excerpted from the June 1 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 1 June 2020 Below is the four-part Heritage plan for reopening some businesses, excerpted from the report:Businesses in counties with low incidences should be allowed to reopen. Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2020 One story from the collection, excerpted in The White Review earlier this year, is told in the style of a brain surgeon’s FAQ for patients. Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020 The letters excerpted here are from a handful of detainees at the Harris County Jail, the second largest in the country and the site of a fast-moving outbreak of COVID-19. Ian Macdougall, ProPublica, 1 May 2012 The group will distribute the guideline excerpts that have appeared on the Internet. Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020 Below, excerpted from Lesser’s book, are her three top recommendations in the genre. Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020 See More
Word History
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Verb and Noun
Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere, from ex- + carpere to gather, pluck — more at harvest