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[prey-see, prey-see] / preɪˈsi, ˈpreɪ si /


précis


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A neat precis of Pakistan's World Cup campaign, overall.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

"The performances are accomplished. Norton gives us a soul broken into fragments. The play, inevitably can only deliver a precis of a book that sprawls over some 700 pages."

From BBC Apr. 6, 2023

In character as Bobby, the museum’s chief curator, Eichner gave a brief precis of Hirschfeld’s career, finishing with an ad-lib, “Tragically, he’s also my type.”

From New York Times May 18, 2022

And there let me stop, even though Connington’s provocative and suspenseful novel includes much more than I’ve touched on in this partial precis.

From Washington Post May 26, 2021

With this brittle precis of her obligations he left the table and went toward the bedroom.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

As a précis to a larger, more scholarly work, it lacks the depth and historical context that many enthusiasts of classical drama may be hungry for.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

A précis of Elmer’s early life in Maine is run through by members of the eight-person cast in the bouncy, no-nonsense manner of a graphic novel.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2025

The succinct catalog, produced when the piece was shown in her 2018 exhibition “Anti-Bodies” at the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland, offers a clear précis of her thinking.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2019

Her sincere descriptions of this anxiety could be a précis of this brave, flawed, luminous book: “I worry I don’t see things the way everyone else does.”

From Slate

The following is a précis of a letter of Rose to Tomline which is among the Pretyman MSS.:

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland




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