precis
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A neat precis of Pakistan's World Cup campaign, overall.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
"The performances are accomplished. Norton gives us a soul broken into fragments. The play, inevitably can only deliver a precis of a book that sprawls over some 700 pages."
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
In character as Bobby, the museum’s chief curator, Eichner gave a brief precis of Hirschfeld’s career, finishing with an ad-lib, “Tragically, he’s also my type.”
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
“Only attach” might even serve as the briefest precis possible of the field now known as attachment theory.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
“That document, you understand,” said Poirot, “is a mere precis of the evidence we heard, arranged that way for convenience.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
As a précis to a larger, more scholarly work, it lacks the depth and historical context that many enthusiasts of classical drama may be hungry for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
He segued into a précis of his political life, starting when he was a 29-year-old senator.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
Props, scripts, costumes and even a replica of the trailer from 1972’s “Pink Flamingos” serve as an immersive, chronological précis of Waters’s cinematic work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
A zippy 1967 film by Jacques Tati, “Playtime,” has a scene that serves as a clean précis for “Figure It Out’s” credo.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020
The following is a précis of a letter of Rose to Tomline which is among the Pretyman MSS.:
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
Vocabulary lists containing precis
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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English Words Derived from French, List 11
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Vocabulary from the Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, Volume I
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