pull quote

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.

Noun

  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...

    Synonyms: liftout pullout

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