A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
1 The following precis , though imperfect, will give some idea of the correspondence:
2 You may have heard of them but here is a precis .
3 In any case the precis begins with these illuminating sentences:
4 In precis , they make more mistakes if they get very cold, or very hot.
5 It is known by a variety of terms-summingup, resume, epitome, review, precis , condensation.
6 Ultimately it is irreducible to precis or paraphrase.
7 Now, sir, here is a precis of evidence, nearly complete, written out clearly by Sergeant Coombes.
8 The precis begins in a curious way.
9 Here's a quick precis , with no spoilers.
10 I just wish I knew which ones they were. Which, unfortunately, was a perfect precis of the situation.
11 Cain gives an interesting precis of how our view of one another has changed since the early 1900s.
12 Joshua had finished reading the precis .
13 However, there should also be a precis or interpretation, written for the people and designed to capture the imagination.
14 The article did not commend itself to him, save as the means of making a precis of the case.
15 The shootout was low on quality and heavy on nerves, which was a neat precis of what had gone before.
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