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I don't need to know every little plot twist; just give me a synopsis of the movie.
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This twist results in a movie with a synopsis that reads like something most people would cook up if they were asked to sketch out a generic action movie plot in 20 minutes.
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Here’s the synopsis: CBS, the highly successful owner of the CBS TV network and Showtime, is trying to buy Viacom, the declining owner of MTV, Nickelodeon, and other cable networks that are showing their age, plus the struggling Paramount studio.
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Longtime Outside contributor Tim Neville, wrote a brief synopsis of the book which connected with many readers.
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According to the episode's synopsis, the Riverdale High Drama Department is putting on a spring musical version of Carrie in partnership with the Lodge family.
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For a deeper dive into the book's plot, visit Sparks' website for a synopsis of the story.
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Kalder waits until the very end, past sometimes perfunctory synopses of other writers and regimes, to get to Turkmenistan, where his prose becomes suddenly luminous, elegiac, and even moving.
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Here’s a synopsis, complete with many quotation marks because both Shia and Kanye are deeply quotable.
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That’s the synopsis of why the federal agency took the rare step of filing a legal complaint recently to force a recall by Britax.
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synopsis Synonyms
Synonyms
abstract, brief, digest, encapsulation, epitome, outline, précis, recap, recapitulation, résumé (or resume), roundup, rundown, sum, summarization, summary, wrap-up;
Related Words
abbreviation, abridgment (or abridgement), compend, compendium, condensation, curtailment, shortening;
conclusion, epilogue (also epilog);
SYNOPSIS Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of synopsis for English Language Learners
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: a short description of the most important information about something : a summary or outline
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