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pull quote en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A brief excerpt drawn from a document and set separately from the main text—often in larger type and/or in a frame—in order to draw the eye.
    • Experts are often reduced to sound bites or "pull quotes," if they are consulted at all. 2017, Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise, page 10:
    • Really, though, in between the pull quotes and the killer lines, Infantino’s performance was something far more disturbing. 2022 November 19, Barney Ronay, “Gianni Infantino does his Football Jesus act during bizarre monologue on Qatar”, in The Guardian:

Forms

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pullquote alternative lexicographic
pull quotes Number=Plur lexicographic
pull-quote alternative lexicographic

Relateds

quote doctor

Synonyms

pullout · liftout

Translations (6)

fr relance-citation (a brief excerpt used out of context) · nv azhí (a brief excerpt used out of context) · es cita destacada (a brief excerpt used out of context) · fi nosto (a brief excerpt used out of context) · fr relance (a brief excerpt used out of context) · nl blikvangercitaat (a brief excerpt used out of context)