to excerpt

Examples

• All

• Interview transcripts were excerpted into small, meaningful units that focused on participants' views of having fun.

  Academic text (1998)

• The personal testimonies collected by its fieldworkers are to be found (primarily in excerpted form) throughout its publications.

  Academic text (1994)

• And then they ask you to to excerpt something from your report and put it in the back.

• Significantly different speech if you just excerpt that part, or what if you excerpted this part.

• The items of the instrument were excerpted from the testing question pool designed by the researchers.

  Academic text (2008)

• "Some of the callers' statements were excerpted from actual Internet confessions and staged during the interview."

  Fiction book (2001)

• The four poems that appear here are excerpted from my book-length manuscript, Uncertain Territories.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Accordingly, the test consisted of reading selections excerpted directly from standard training materials used in police academies in Texas.

  Academic text (1998)

• In the Wounded Knee reminiscence excerpted here, Valandry's clergyman stepfather personified the clerical.

  Academic text (1998)

• In our next issue, we will excerpt a passage from the author's latest novel for our readers.

Synonyms

T

to take out

vsto excerpt

∞ 1.9

To remove something from a place or container

focuses on taking a short part for reuse and citation rather than general removal

E

to extract

vsto excerpt

5 3.7

To take a short part from a book or article to quote

is a short selection used elsewhere mainly for citation or reference

How Much

to reproduce

58 4.0

to extract

5 3.7

to excerpt

16 4.6

to quote

772 1.6

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