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I bet he'd be confused by the modern practice of interrupting FRAGMENT FROM LATER ON the article with a large-font different colored random sentence fragment

I bet he'd be confused by the modern practice of interrupting FRAGMENT FROM LATER ON the article with a large-font different colored random sentence fragment from later on in the article. SO BIZARRRE I see this practice all the time, and it's always struck me as so bizarre.

DerekL 9y ago
This is called a “pull quote”. It's widely used in print magazines. I don't know when it started, but I've seen it since around 1980. The first known use of the term is 1978. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pull%20quote https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pull%20quote