as in summary
a short statement of the main points
I don't need to know every little plot twist; just give me a synopsis of the movie
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According to the official synopsis, Season 3 finds Arisu and Usagi now married and living peacefully, though haunted by memories of the Borderland in dreams and visions.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 July 2025
The film’s official synopsis reads: Fantasia is set in the age of low-rise jeans and flip phones, where a Persian teen, Yasamin (Rose Dehgan), immigrates to a new country with her family.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 July 2025
But the synopsis leaves hanging key questions that could have been answered at trial — including a motive for the stabbings and why Kohberger picked that house, and those victims, all apparent strangers to him.
—Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
So reads the ominous synopsis of the Hungarian film written and directed by Bence Fliegauf.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 July 2025
The film’s official synopsis reads: Fantasia is set in the age of low-rise jeans and flip phones, where a Persian teen, Yasamin (Rose Dehgan), immigrates to a new country with her family.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 July 2025
But the synopsis leaves hanging key questions that could have been answered at trial — including a motive for the stabbings and why Kohberger picked that house, and those victims, all apparent strangers to him.
—Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
So reads the ominous synopsis of the Hungarian film written and directed by Bence Fliegauf.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synopsis
summary
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2025
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That includes Call Notes (an automatic summary of your phone call), and support for the Pixel Screenshots app.—
Julian Chokkattu,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
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