as in essence
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
didn't catch every word between them, but heard enough to get the gist of the conversation
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Recent Examples of gist
Audiences needn’t know the specifics of the film’s story — or the onslaught of cultural throwaway jokes — to get the narrative gist within the madness.
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Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
The show’s gist isn’t unlike the shows that have come before it: After a rotation of dates in a sleepaway-camp-esque setting, pairs will start to form.
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Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
If not, the basic gist: Buy a present (typically within a certain budget) and bring it, wrapped, to the big event.
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Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
20 Nov. 2025
The general gist is that these things all work, but the effects are variable, personal, and context-specific.
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Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
The show’s gist isn’t unlike the shows that have come before it: After a rotation of dates in a sleepaway-camp-esque setting, pairs will start to form.
—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
If not, the basic gist: Buy a present (typically within a certain budget) and bring it, wrapped, to the big event.
—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
20 Nov. 2025
The general gist is that these things all work, but the effects are variable, personal, and context-specific.
—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gist
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Some pastimes are distractions, some are distortions, and some few are true distillations—refining a city or a place or a community to its essence, deliciously sipped by all.
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Like the catchphrase to the Wide World of Sports broadcast that first enthralled Hunt with the World Cup, this was the essence of the thrill of victory contrasting, alas, with the agony of defeat.
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Reflective, multilayer shields will block the most heat, and ones with a thicker foam core will work much better than thin ones.
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Sperm production works best at a temperature slightly cooler than core body temperature.
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Aniston, on the other hand, leaned into the shoe's casual roots, wearing hers with jeans and a tank top for a relaxed look that felt quintessentially summer.
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The dynamic Sun in your 9th House of Exploration quincunxes powerful Pluto in your 4th House of Home, so growth calls while roots demand attention.
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Others develop dangerous fluctuations in blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms because the autonomic nervous system becomes affected.
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Let heart guide tone, and your message lands.
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But an array of issues ultimately lost La Roja the three points – and more worryingly, point towards some potentially bad habits that could cost this team a chance of lifting its second World Cup.
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Restricting the key waterway, which is crucial to the world's oil supply and has become one of the main points of negotiation in the war, comes amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, according to Iran's top military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
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The three benchmarks Recursive used involve training a small language model, improving AI training speed, and optimizing a GPU kernel, the tiny mathematical steps that a GPU has to perform to train or run an AI model.
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Grill ears in their husks, then cut the kernels from the cob and add them to salads, salsas, grain bowls, or vegetable dishes.
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That sum will sound shockingly low to anyone who has paid full price at a private college.
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The push matters because of the zero sum nature of TV.
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“Gist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gist. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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