precis

A neat precis of Pakistan's World Cup campaign, overall.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

A recurring line from “First Reformed” feels like a precis for all of these: Will God forgive us?

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

"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

“Only attach” might even serve as the briefest precis possible of the field now known as attachment theory.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020

With this brittle precis of her obligations he left the table and went toward the bedroom.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

In return, the software delivered a tightly constructed five-paragraph précis that began as follows:

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Joseph Smith, acting under Cosmo Versál's direction, had forwarded an elaborate précis of the latter's argument, accompanied with full mathematical details, to the head of the institution.

From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss