excision
noun
the act of removal; an excising.
excisions
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pluralof excision.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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With some judicious excisions of aria sections, the opera ran 2 1/2 hours with one intermission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
These little excisions from reality - or "perpetuity edits," a kind of George Orwell speak - see them remove from the world anything they don't like.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
Where it stumbles comes in some of the excisions and rearranging it makes in its final act.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
That neatly sums up the strange world of professional speechwriting, a land of ghost drafts, scraps, rewrites, recycles, deep-dive research, retractions, excisions, cross-outs and hurry-ups.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
And even this would gain considerably by condensation, even by simple excisions.
From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
