aperçu
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I guess we could fault Caleb for this aperçu, but in a novel that purports to be about the slippery idea of authorship, let’s blame Lipstein.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022
“It’s an aperçu of Alex Trebek, human being. What is he like? What has he done? How did he screw up? Things like that.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2020
Et je ne suis pas restée à Mystic: dès que j’ai aperçu le vieux cimetière de Hunter Mills, c’est la zone frontalière entre le Québec et les États-Unis qui m’a fascinée.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017
James Hayward doesn't mention Muggeridge's aperçu in this account of the career of Arthur Owens, billed as Hitler's chief spy in England and code-named Snow.
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013
You might as well try to subvert gravitation: "Je m'en suis aperçu étant par terre," is the only result, as in Molière's lesson of physics.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon