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As a master of the biological precis , he condenses huge amounts of information into small, easily digestible pieces.New Scientist (1998)
At the literary level, it is the art of precis writing in excelsis.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
From some book of her own Miss Derwent, the English mistress, had given the form a lengthy paragraph for precis work.Challenge for the Chalet School
Glamorous Mary Archer once described her husband as having a "talent for inaccurate precis ".Sun, News of the World (2001)
Regardie's A Garden of Pomegranates gives a briefer precis of the path on its pp.Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought.
The report was a fair, accurate and conservative precis of proceedings.Misc (1995)
To precis this notion, we have Zeus claiming, "Women are good for only one thing!Globe and Mail (2003)
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