precis

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

It’s a great precis of each team, and a distillation of how they’re seen at home.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018

“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

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

I dug around in my daypack and found the précis to Nietzsche’s mature philosophy, “The Antichrist,” published in 1898, years after he supposedly went insane.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

The reading world is hunger-bitten about Asia, and I often think I shall take three months' leave and run up a précis of Sanskrit and Pali literature, just a few folios for the learned world.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay