excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
excerpting
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present participleof excerpt.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Cowley worked his magic again in launching Jack Kerouac’s career, spending years talking up and excerpting “On the Road” in magazines before publishing the 1957 Beat touchstone with Viking to immediate acclaim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
They also build on something search engines have already been doing, excerpting the most essential parts of existing content to save you a click.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Its formula is to hire two or three reporters per city and fill out newsletters by excerpting stories from existing local outlets.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
She performs a public service by excerpting the treatment for Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, which might be the most embarrassing PDF in the history of entertainment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
With this in mind he read countless authors of different ages and countries, a total of around 50,000 epigrams, from most of which nothing at all was worth excerpting.
From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by J. V. (James Vincent) Cunningham
