precis

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He segued into a précis of his political life, starting when he was a 29-year-old senator.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024

Props, scripts, costumes and even a replica of the trailer from 1972’s “Pink Flamingos” serve as an immersive, chronological précis of Waters’s cinematic work.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2023

Un autre invader, le poing levé, domine le lieu précis d’où sont parties les manifestations d’étudiants de la Sorbonne en 1968.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

It made you précis in a really creative way.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2020

It reads more like an excessively uninspired précis of a larger work than like anything else—a précis in which all the literary merit has, with unvarying infelicity, been omitted.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George