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In an excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote that he’s learned “to love all parts of our Christian communion,” including those “who voted for me and those who didn’t.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Pangram is considered one of the most reliable and testing by AFP on an excerpt of "It Was Either That or Die" indicated a 100-percent probability that Orelien had used AI to produce it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
These week, we share an exclusive excerpt from Gershkovich’s new book about facing false espionage charges in Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Here is an excerpt from his acceptance speech:
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Superagent Ari Emanuel’s new memoir, “Roll the Calls,” should have been titled “Rude, Crude and Lewd,” given all the redacted words I’ve noticed in excerpts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Popular authors are often found lurking in the pages of newspapers—they publish excerpts of their books, write reviews and provide quotations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But following allegations started by an anonymous X account, the 38-year-old Haitian-Canadian stands accused of using artificial intelligence to write his novel based on analysis of excerpts by AI-detection websites such as Pangram.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tomlinson wanted a combination of funny and serious excerpts capturing grief, but also a quote about evolving as a person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The English papers carried excerpts of the senator’s speech and briefly mentioned my father.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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The coming-of-age stories of four women the Times evacuated are chronicled in the forthcoming book “The Last Free Women,” excerpted below.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
A portion of their conversation, edited and condensed for clarity, has been excerpted below.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired music is excerpted and heard on a recording, sometimes harshly produced on the hall’s reverberant sound system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
This essay is excerpted from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Mullen examined the tapes and excerpted all references to the candidates, until he had 37 separate segments, each roughly two and a half seconds long.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Cowley worked his magic again in launching Jack Kerouac’s career, spending years talking up and excerpting “On the Road” in magazines before publishing the 1957 Beat touchstone with Viking to immediate acclaim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
They also build on something search engines have already been doing, excerpting the most essential parts of existing content to save you a click.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Thankfully, Adès has made further music from the score: the solo piano Berceuse, written for Kirill Gerstein, and this symphony, which cleverly echoes the opera without excerpting it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
Prosecutors leaned heavily on exchanges between Leopold and Edwards, excerpting from messages that suggested the relationship overstepped the traditional bounds of reporter and source.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
Nor in the way of Spiritual Portraiture does there, after so much writing and excerpting, anything of importance remain for me to say.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
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