"excerpts" in the noun sense
1. excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
a passage selected from a larger work
"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
"excerpts" in the verb sense
1. excerpt, extract, take out
take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
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