precis

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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

In return, the software delivered a tightly constructed five-paragraph précis that began as follows:

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

It made you précis in a really creative way.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2020

A zippy 1967 film by Jacques Tati, “Playtime,” has a scene that serves as a clean précis for “Figure It Out’s” credo.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2020

None of the great French preachers admit of logical abstraction and précis so well as he.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George