Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

Let me give you an example: Except for this small vocal minority, we have just not gotten a lot of groundswell against this from members, " says APA president Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University.
The answer to this example can be: "Except for this small vocal minority, we have not gotten a lot of groundswell against this," says APA president Zimbardo.
Here is why: Both texts convey the same meaning that they have not gotten much groundswell against this except for small minority.

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One might say that subtitling the present book A Book of Lost Metaphors is an example of a loose canon [ sic ] unless metaphor is taken in its broadest sensebut one is unlikely to find red herrings here: the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.
Answer:
1 might say subtitling the present book A Book of Lost Metaphors is an example of a loose canon, it is the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.