excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
excerpted
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past participleof excerpt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof excerpt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
excerptnouna passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
Example Sentences
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Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired music is excerpted and heard on a recording, sometimes harshly produced on the hall’s reverberant sound system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
A portion of their conversation is excerpted below, edited and condensed for clarity.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2025
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms.
From Barron's ● Dec. 6, 2025
Mullen examined the tapes and excerpted all references to the candidates, until he had 37 separate segments, each roughly two and a half seconds long.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
