gist

“The general gist of saying everything is worse, is dangerous — it’s not true. But aesthetically, things have gotten worse,” he said.

The rest of us can watch — we may even understand the gist of their conversations — but their world is theirs alone.

That was the gist of headlines two years ago, when Swift’s Eras Tour resulted in a ticket-sales fiasco of epic proportions.

“No reasonable jury could have accepted the gist of plaintiff’s testimony, awarded $38 million in damages, and found less than 116 incidents.”

The researchers showed that as flies encounter an odor signal, the specific pattern of interference between the receptors helps flies quickly compute the "gist" of the odor's meaning: "Is it good or bad for me?"