precis
Example Sentences
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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
It is a colourful rather than accurate precis, but he doesn’t expect to be taken 100% literally.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2019
With this brittle precis of her obligations he left the table and went toward the bedroom.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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