bare outline
Frequency: 6.26.0 per million words
A summary with only the most basic facts.
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Examples (10)
- The presentation only provided a bare outline of the complex project.
- She quickly sketched a bare outline of her idea on a napkin.
- We received a bare outline of the proposal, lacking crucial details.
- His report gave a bare outline of the historical events without much analysis.
- The initial draft was just a bare outline, with most chapters still needing to be written.
- Can you give me a bare outline of the new policy?
- They presented only the bare outline of their findings, saving the specifics for later.
- The novel's plot was reduced to a bare outline for the summary.
- Even from the bare outline, we could understand the general direction of the plan.
- The teacher asked for a bare outline of the essay before they started writing.