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excerpt

noun as in citation; something taken from a whole

verb as in take a part from a whole

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In his address to Congress, Trump said he received an "important letter" from Zelensky on Tuesday, before reading what he said were excerpts from it.

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He flinched when excerpts of his diary were read out, and averted his eyes as indecent photographs he took of his nieces were shown.

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Dedicated golf fans will be aware their expertise runs far deeper than what they reveal in their basic excerpts.

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The next day, police found excerpts of an al-Qaeda training manual on one of the attacker's computers.

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“We broadcast a longer portion of the vice president’s answer on Face the Nation and broadcast a shorter excerpt from the same answer on 60 Minutes the next day,” the “60 Minutes” producers wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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