excised

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As for why some material was excised, the reasons vary.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Ms. McCracken has now collected the 280 excised notes and compiled them into a sometimes useful, always charming book roughly equal in length to the original novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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

Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann