excerpt
noun
a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract.
have excerpted
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present perfectof excerpt.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Below, we have excerpted Chapter 3, “Lessons from Copyright Law.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018
Below I have excerpted and edited key portions.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2011
Field seems to have excerpted this incautiously from the Schoolmen, who on this premiss could justify the communicability of adoration, as in the case of the saints.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
But all this while I misunderstand him, for possibly he meaneth his own dear words I have excerpted.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
