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When trying to get the sense of "Gist", one probably stumbles over the Merriam-Webster, which explains: | |
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 |