excised
Example Sentences
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The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As for why some material was excised, the reasons vary.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
These excised lines from the Farewell Address serve not only as a warning but as a prescient prophecy of the political turmoil and factionalism that would later shape the nation’s history.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
Enrollees who didn’t meet the requirement for three months were summarily excised from Medicaid and couldn’t reenroll until the following year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
If gemmules existed, then a mouse with a surgically excised tail should produce a mouse without a tail.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
