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How to use precis in a sentence

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After providing a decent precis of the most famous passage from Mill's On Liberty, he totally misinterpreted what it means.
It would surely be cheaper and more effective to release a precis as a press release for the media to report on in the usual way.
Well, of course it wasn't at all about that but it's not entirely easy to precis.
The precis accompanying the weekly summaries of incidents also make it possible to explore in more detail the deaths of individual policemen.
It would be easier if we stuck to headlines only, rather than including the short precis?
To precis the plot is even more distorting than usual since Churchill works in non-linear fashion.
The hero's journey, however, need not be anywhere as simplistic as in the brief precis above.
Appendix A is an interesting but rather detached precis of chemical warfare and shell shock.
The Boston Globe, however, has a precis for those who can't wait.
The Working Group's tentative recommendations or a precis thereof are reproduced for the information of the Civil Section.
You can read a brief precis of what he found by clicking here.
The following excerpts from and precis of Dr. Bernauer's presentation identify major elements of this history.
In order to introduce it he has given a description of rhetoric, a precis of which we reproduce here.
Each portrait includes a descriptive evaluation of each space and a precis of its legal requirements, accompanied by a photograph and a scaled schematic site plan.
When Mr Lane stopped going to home matches, fellow former club director, Dr John Nicholas would take round a programme to his home, complete with a precis of the game.
Obviously I haven't yet read Sunstein's book, but I have read his recent essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education which appears to be a precis of it.
Zachary Lockman's book is an accessible precis of that story.
Here is a precis of a discussion I had with a male patient yesterday.
I'm suggesting that we get them to precis and review The Simpsons.
She wrote one of the best and most intelligent dissections of the case, and to precis her, she pointed out that Martin and the man had a lot in common.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is the precis de toutes les choses, the compendium of the wealth of society.
The precis of two is given by Gachard, and the third is published entire by Reiffenberg.
Such is a precis of this strange entry, the discovery of which, vague as it was, thrilled us with hope and excitement.
In submitting a precis of the gospel narratives I have not implied any estimate either of their credibility or of their truth.
A precis of the book's content, present in laminated form on the book's back cover, vulgarizes and sensationalizes its argument.
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