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Synonyms for excerpt

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for excerpt

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

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The previous "Aitmatov readings" were supported not only by the faculty, but even more by the students of the University of Cambridge, who themselves wanted to read an excerpt from the work of a famous writer in different languages, the Foreign Ministry said.
The fifth and sixth excerpts had the BCCI and Agha Hasan Abidi at their centre.
Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump, read an excerpt from the book about Trump's eating habits.
Excerpt from Los origenes del cine mexicano: 1896-1900 (Aurelio de los Reyes).
Taken as a whole, this collection is thought-provoking but also--because of the smothering secondary support, the overly brief excerpts, and the strangely unrepresentative selection of pieces in the "Literature and Poetry" section--frustrating and unsatisfying.
From among the millions of authors on twitter, Anne Rasico's book excerpt from “When the Chips Are Down” her debut novel has made it through to the final stages of what is now known as the X-Factor of the writing competition world.
This is vividly depicted in the subversive responses to the violent governmentality in Eden Robinson's "Terminal Avenue" (1996), as well as in excerpts from Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991), Stephen Graham Jones' The Bird is Gone: A [begin strikethrough]Monograph[end strikethrough] Manifesto (2003), and Robert Sullivan (Nga Puhi) 's epic poem, Star Waka (1999).
"It is less the pettinesses of the world that poison us than the fact of thinking of them too much." This and hundreds of other excerpts from the writings from the internationally renowned theologian and author Frithjof Schuon are presented in this newly revised edition by his long-term assistant, Patrick Casey.
The seventh annual reading event will consist of the readings of poems, prose and excerpts from plays.
RIGHTHAVEN, THE company that has taken to suing blogs and websites for reposting newspaper articles--especially those of the Las Vegas-Review Journal without permission, has announced it no longer plans to sue websites for posting brief excerpts of stories, The corn party was handed a defeat by a Nevada judge who ruled in favor of a real estate website that excerpted eight sentences of a Review Journal story about the real estate market.
In the last of three excerpts, one man dragged two others who were limp but alive.