The phrase "a gist of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when summarizing or conveying the main point or essence of something, such as a text or conversation.
Example: "In her presentation, she provided a gist of the research findings, highlighting the most important results."
Alternatives: "a summary of" or "the essence of".
The collection, A Gist Of Origin (1979) remains a groundbreaking work.
A special advocate will give only a gist of what has occurred rather than the full details.
They will not be allowed to see the full defence evidence deployed by the Home Office against McGartland but given only a "gist" of what it contains.
In some circumstances, the special advocate may be able to give the party whose interests he represents a gist of the evidence, allowing that party to give effective instructions to the special advocate (such as "I was abroad that week").
Those kinds of anchors and reference points work because they give jurors a way to get a gist of the claimed damages, and a way to bring abstract numbers into the jurors' own mental universe.
I had a gist of the maestro's famous eccentricity.
Trimesters are often much cheaper, and you can get a good "gist" of a culture by being there a few months (usually 2 to 3).
Our German might need a bit of work, but, joking aside, it is a site worth checking out, if only to get a rough gist of some of the more exciting work being done outside the Anglophone world.
These parameters have been shown to predict its malignant potential of a GIST, with a sensitivity of 83%-86 83%-86 specificity of 76%-80% [ 6, 7].
I cannot find the document online, but I expect you can get a good gist of his arguments from this Dartmouth video on YouTube.
John: "Yeah; Harvard's Daniel Simons and Kent State's Daniel Leven find that your brain builds a fleeting gist of scenes, then throws away the details.
