pull quote
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4.1
- noun
- /pʊl kwoʊt/
- Literature
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- Just offering a pull quote and a link isn't a feat of reportage, to be sure, but aggregation is or certainly has become important in the overall field, and there are many posts here that are reported out and qualify by any standards of "journalism."
Examples
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You can hear the thesis statement and a pull quote served up by an all-knowing voice of authority coming, can't you?
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However, that's the two-sentence pull quote made for virality.
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The pull quote from Pelissero, which was pulled directly from the Vikings stadium bill:
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So I want to address the pull quote: "But I say, you have to put your ego aside and play by the rules so you can get to the top and change things."
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Now, l would move the pull quote just a teeny bit so that you'll have room to squeeze in the text.
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I was watching TV last night, and a commercial for the movie came on. It was loaded with pull quotes from various critics, which included words like "brilliant" and "masterpiece."
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The author selected a powerful pull quote to highlight her main argument in the article.
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In the magazine, the pull quote captured the essence of the interview perfectly.
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Readers often notice the pull quote designed to draw them into the article's key points.
Synonyms
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4.3
A short part taken from a longer text, song, or film
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2.6
A short piece of someone else's words used to support an idea with the source named
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3.7
A short part taken from a book or article
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3.0
The exact words someone said or wrote shown in quotation marks
A short part taken from a longer text for reading or study
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'pull' (take/out) and 'quote' (a passage) can infer the basic idea of taking or extracting a quotation, so the core sense is partly compositional. However, the specific publishing/layout nuance — extracting a short, notable line and displaying it prominently — is a genre-specific extension of 'pull' and not fully predictable from the parts, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Pull quote The noun pull quote comes from page design: you pull a short quote out of the main text and put it apart so readers notice it. That's why a pull quote means 'a short quotation shown separately to draw attention'.