excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
had excerpted
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past perfectof excerpt.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Armstrong sued Ms. O’Reilly and The Sunday Times of London, which had excerpted the book.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2012
After all, the work had been chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, Vanity Fair had excerpted a chapter, and the film rights had been sold for $100,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the old King had excerpted it from the Torah or Pentateuch and the Books of Abraham; and had set it in one of his treasuries and concealed it from all living.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
