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pull quote
noun
: a significant passage in an article, story, book, or speech that is quoted and used for drawing attention to its source
Examples of pull quote in a Sentence
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This makes the show feel like classic late-night premium-television soft-core, the stuff that comes up when people reduce the complexity of Euphoria or Trilogy to the wildest pull quote or plot point.
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Vulture, 30 June 2023
The other defining image of the campaign was of a pull quote.
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Michael P.h. Stanley, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
Featuring a pull quote on your marketing graphics with the logo of the original publication can translate into a significant uptick in engagement versus an image without the quote.
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Colby Flood, Forbes, 13 June 2022
Lozada-Oliva told Vogue in October, and this novel-in-poetry more than lives up to that pull quote.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2021
In the pull quote, Eliason argues that the process of breaking down oats creates a natural form of sugar called maltose.
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Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2021
In the March 14 Section A, an article about a medical device used to save the life of Blanca Lopez, a woman with a severe case of COVID-19, was accompanied by a pull quote that was attributed to her son Criztiaan Lopez.
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Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
This 80-year-old man just gave us a pull quote that reads like an Azealia Banks tweet.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
This reminded me of what Australian journalist Lenore Taylor asserted a couple of months ago: Grabbing pull quotes from Trump's rants and cutting out the craziest bits actually misleads the audience.
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Brian Stelter, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1978, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near pull quote
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“Pull quote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pull%20quote. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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