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summary
adjective as in concise, to the point
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Weak matches
boiled down, breviloquent, compacted, compendiary, compendious, condensed, in a nutshell, laconic, perfunctory, pithy, recapped, rehashed, run down, short and sweet
noun as in short statement of main points
Strongest matches
analysis, essence, outline, prospectus, recap, rehash, review, rundown, sketch, survey, synopsis, version
Strong matches
abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, brief, capitulation, case, compendium, condensation, conspectus, core, digest, epitome, extract, inventory, nutshell, recapitulation, reduction, report, roundup, run through, sense, skeleton, syllabus
Weak matches
aperçu, long and short of it, pandect, precis, précis, résumé, sum and substance, summing-up, wrap-up
Example Sentences
This is my own summary list, but it overlaps considerably with the characteristics of fascism described by Umberto Eco in an essay written 30 years ago.
Why settle for a vague secondhand summary when the tapes themselves are readily available?
The Children's Commissioner for Wales Rocio Cifuentes says there were instances where independent reviews had been commissioned by local authorities, with a summary rather than the full report.
This chimes with other accounts of how men and boys are especially at risk as they face arbitrary arrest, violence and summary execution.
Next, yet another language model can scan those summaries.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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