How to Use excision in a Sentence

excision

noun

• McVicar tops off the Met production with an excision of his own.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 1 Mar. 2020
• But the logic, the strict excision of anything that might compromise the show, is exactly the same.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The excision of Egypt from Africa has been so successful — has there ever been a movie made with Africans playing Egyptians?
  — New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Once the depth of the burn is determined, the patient may have surgical excisions and skin grafting to begin the recovery process.
  — Daniella Emanuel, CNN, 18 July 2017
• The audience would not need the repetition of this; the audience will be excited by the excision of that.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• The procedure would have involved temporary surgical removal of part of the frontal bone of the skull and excision of the bone tumor to close the leak that was sending air into the brain.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• Gyno #1 recommended a surgeon to perform the excision and sent me on my way.
  — Kelly McCreary, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2020
• Singh writes how two particular Arabic excisions stand out across the films.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 26 Mar. 2024
• Third, the excision of the children of the undocumented is at odds not just with the original understanding of the 14th Amendment.
  — Aziz Huq, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• Wide excision surgery is generally able to be done in the doctor's office, says Dr. Ravi-Jeyamohan.
  — Seraphina Seow, Health.com, 23 June 2021
• In perhaps his first architectural excision, Matta-Clark tore out the storefront’s walls to achieve an open-plan kitchen and exhibited one of the fragments as a sculpture at 112 Greene Street.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Agnieszka’s version of Kafka’s life isn’t simply a retelling of the subject’s life, a recap of his greatest hits, with the excision of anything morally complex about his life to make the subject more likeable.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 May 2024
• For larger or deeper moles, the dermatologist will perform an excision using a scalpel to remove a small ellipse of mole and skin tissue, says Dr. Moshiri.
  — Seraphina Seow, Health.com, 26 May 2021
• Half a century later, the great English critic F. R. Leavis was still using the language of excision, so evocative of, well, castration.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Leno underwent surgery for excision and grafting for second and third-degree burns and was slated for another procedure this week.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• Depending on the location of the pregnancy, other excisions, such as an oophorectomy (removal of the ovary) might be needed in place of or in addition to the salpingectomy.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• Almost two thirds of us undergo infibulation - the most extreme form, which leaves girls with their labia stitched together following excision of the clitoris.
  — Hawa Aden Mohamed For Cnn, CNN, 5 July 2017
• The types of surgery include: wide excision, Mohs surgery, lymph node dissection, metastatic melanoma surgery, and extremely rare cases, amputation.
  — Madison Yauger, Health.com, 8 June 2021
• Liposuction of the area or direct surgical excision is an excellent treatment to reduce the area.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2021
• Doctors may have a strong preference to perform surgical excision for cancer as this is considered to be the clinical gold standard.
  — Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Agrippina’s excision of Seneca is noticeable and significant, as McVicar seems to have understood.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 1 Mar. 2020
• In 2021, Sophia finally had excision surgery (an operation to cut out all the visible endometriotic tissue) on the NHS following the results of her private scan.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• But her most troubling decision, to judge by the criticisms that have arisen in recent days, is the excision of a character: Hallie, a slave girl who figures significantly in both Cullinan’s novel and Siegel’s movie.
  — Justin Chang, star-telegram.com, 28 June 2017
• Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over Trump’s case at the lower court level, must now hear arguments from parties about which specific acts are which and make excisions in Trump’s indictment where appropriate.
  — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024
• Biopsy and excision of this mass confirmed the presence of a functional supernumerary nipple.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2017
• Treatment removes excision of the endometriosis tissue to provide relief.
  — Jess Cording, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The seriousness of Hamon's rejection required a complete excision of his face in November.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• The accusations against pedophile priests had been appearing in the Globe for decades, but only as rare incidents of abuse meriting a few buried column inches, not a widespread cancer demanding excision.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2015
• The injuries can worsen and sustain enough cumulative trauma to the point of needing surgical excision or amputation.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
• Five decades after the events in question, most of these excisions seem hard to justify, especially given that historians, journalists, and even Devlin himself have already exposed the main actors’ identities.
  — Stephen R. Weissman, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024