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synopsis

noun as in digest, summary

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A reading of that brief synopsis is enough to make it clear that Campion’s movie plays on other tropes besides those found in Westerns.

Below, you’ll find a synopsis of how Google’s title changes have evolved, how you can verify whether your titles have been changed and what you can do to regain control over them.

Strava users are prompted to give their runs a “title” and to add a synopsis and photos.

Authorities in Ventura County told The Los Angeles Times they were reviewing a synopsis of about 20 incidents provided by Thacher officials last week to see if any of them constituted crimes.

It works reasonably well—some synopses are better than others—and it’s free.

These scenes bring out a strange lightheartedness you would not expect going into a film with such a heady synopsis.

For The Signature of All Things, for instance, I wrote a 70 page synopsis of the book before I wrote the book.

With my third book, what was supposed to be the climax (at least, according to the synopsis) arrived on page 100.

Grunwald offers a synopsis of the book in a Foreign Policy piece.

Skim a synopsis of a Roth satire and you might think him only riotous, ludicrous and extravagant.

His account of this initiation turns upon two or three points which do not appear in the synopsis of the sixth chapter.

He knew as much about it as Tadeo, but the published synopsis helped him and his fancy supplied the rest.

This briefer story cannot but be a repetition of the facts and a synopsis of the fuller statement of them.

Enough of its plan and purpose has been given in former chapters to make a synopsis of it unnecessary here.

Sidenotes giving a running synopsis of the text have been kept as close as possible to their original format and location.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to synopsis, such as: recap, rundown, abridgment, abstract, breviary, and brief.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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