Excerpting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of taking an excerpt.

    "The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of excerpt form-of, gerund, participle, present

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snippetingsnippeting

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"The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings."

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