precis

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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 brief, tactful summary may be in order, a kind of Google Maps précis of the route.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022

It made you précis in a really creative way.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2020

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 Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert