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plural excerpts
A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. examples
third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted
(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work. quotations examples
out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey