excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
excerpts
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pluralof excerpt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof excerpt (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
excerptnouna passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
Example Sentences
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At the center of the research are previously overlooked excerpts from a lost papal letter preserved in a medieval collection of canon law in the Vatican.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Miraculously, just a few days shy of my 12th birthday, I spoke," he writes in the book, excerpts of which were published by The New York Times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then again, we don’t have the full context of the excerpts, so it’s hard to know for sure what we’re looking at.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
Alongside the footage, Humberside Police has released excerpts from interviews with Bush.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Then the orchestra played excerpts from Dvorak's New World Symphony and I kept hearing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" resounding through its dominant theme—my mother's and grandfather's favorite spiritual.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
