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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bare summary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to describe a summary that is minimal or lacking in detail.
Example: "The report provided a bare summary of the findings, leaving out important context and analysis."
Alternatives: "a brief overview" or "a concise summary".
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A bare summary is probably all her readers need at this point, in which case here goes: 10 stories; some of them slight and occasionally dated (there's a lesbian-themed satire on Harley Street that seems to come from a very distant era); four or five flawed successes and interesting failures; one knockout.
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But that bare summary does not do justice to the baroque mixture of intrigue, incompetence and official secrecy that followed Ms Politkovskaya's murder.The official reaction to the killing left many feeling outraged.
I tried to front-load this review with praise, because once you read a bare-bones summary of "Awake's" premise, you might run away.
That is perhaps the barest summary that one could hope to achieve of Ancient Life, a novel criss-crossed with ghost roads and dead-ends and peopled by shifty characters who seem provisional even to themselves.
A bare tree.
Car 9 a bare barn.
A bare number represents an uptown bid.
A bare yellow bulb provided additional cheer.
A bare stripped mountain washed away.
A bare book spine is very beautiful.
Have the soup at a bare simmer.
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