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Examples of gist in a Sentence
- Thus, Poulterers' Case gave rise to a doctrine which survives to this day: the gist of conspiracy is the agreement, and so the agreement is punishable even if its purpose was not achieved. —Wayne R. LaFave & Austin W. Scott, Jr., Criminal Law, (1972) 1986
- … Einstein showed how time intervals depend on the motion of people and clocks doing the measuring. And that's the gist of relativity. —Alan Lightman, Science, January/February 1984
- Dorothea told him that she had seen Lydgate, and recited the gist of her conversation with him about the Hospital. —George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
didn't catch every word between them, but heard enough to get the gist of the conversation
Recent Examples of gist from the Web
Image Basic income is a term that gets thrown around loosely, but the gist is that the government distributes cash universally.
Back Caption Options Close Settings Language English Font Size Small Medium Large Position Auto Bottom Top Sample Caption Text 0:00 0:00 0:00 The trailer is all guns and dark jungles and shadows, but the gist is these Predators are different.
Eventually, the gist is able to create something passable.
Bringing Wisconsin to the south has helped The gist of these academies is pretty simple.
The gist of the stories is that Davidson and Grande, both 24, got engaged in the last week or so after just a few weeks of dating and some very public declarations about each other on social media.
The gist of their plan was to show evidence that Qatar was too close to Iran and supported Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
The basic gist of it is this: Lets assume The Big Bang created the universe, and continues to expand infinitely (called eternal inflation).
However, the gist of it is that private citizens are sometimes barred from suing the government or those who work for the government unless the government agrees to be sued.
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The gist of the conversation was that .... The word gist often appears in such contexts to let us know that what follows will be a statement or summary that in some way encapsulates the main point or overarching theme. The gist of a conversation, argument, story, or what-have-you is what we rely on when the actual words and details are only imperfectly recalled, inessential, or too voluminous to recount in their entirety. Gist was borrowed from the Anglo-French legal phrase "[cest] action gist" ("[this] action lies") in the early 18th century, and was originally used in legal contexts as a term referring to the foundation or grounds for a legal action without which that action would not be legally sustainable.
sum and substance, the long and short (or the long and the short);
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