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How to pronounce excerpt in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms extract, take out
Type of take, pick out, select, choose
Type Words
Synonyms excerption, extract, selection
Type of passage
Has types analects, chrestomathy, citation, clipping, cut, cutting, analecta, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, quotation, quote, track


he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings.

Examples of excerpt

excerpt
Below is an excerpt of his newsletter, if you want the full version, click here.
From the forbes.com
An excerpt of the interview was released before the broadcast, set to air today.
From the freep.com
Please forgive the lengthy excerpt, but I think it is worth considering in full.
From the scienceblogs.com
An excerpt was published in the weekly general interest magazine Saturday Night.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Below is a brief excerpt from a conversation with Prof. Howard Ernst I recorded.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Bertucelli begins with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
From the time.com
This is an excerpt from a Merrill eighth-grade student's letter to her pen pal.
From the desmoinesregister.com
We had limited resources, so we knew we'd only be able to translate an excerpt.
From the theatlantic.com
In order to make a point, Ms. Gottlieb chose an excerpt from an online profile.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
  • Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
  • An extract is a substance made by a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol or water. Extracts may be sold as tinctures or in powder form.
  • Excerpt is an independent, limited edition 5-song EP by Pinoy Rock quintet Cambio.
  • (Excerpts...) Excerpts... is a studio album by Fragile Vastness. It was released in 2002 by Sleaszy Rider Records.
  • A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media; To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work
  • (Excerpts) On line text excerpted from books & lecture notes. Bibliographies & Glossaries
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  • (n) a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; (v)to take such a such passage to quote