An excerpt is a selected portion from a longer work such as a film or book. So long as you bear in mind its correct meaning, you can use the word "excerpt" in much the same way that you use the word "sample."The trailer shows an excerpt from the film "Avatar."The author read an excerpt from his new novel. I used an excerpt of the speech in my term paper.
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Yes.To excerpt means to take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
a word-for-word excerpt from a text
Ex, in Latin it means out of or from.
As in 'Shut your trap', 'trap' means mouth.
The Japanese word for trap is トラップ (torappu) 罠 (wana) is also common Japanese word for 'trap'.
How would the meaning of the excerpt be different if Kennedy had used the word idea instead of torch