Precis used in a sentence

Precis in a sentence as a noun

Well, yes, that's nice--but we use Ruby precisely for all the inherently-really-slow parts.

I was being serious, but I appreciate that my brief precis above is impenetrable to someone who hasn't used some flavor of vi.

Precis in a sentence as a verb

If someone were really charitable and wanting to put some work into it, it could be greatly improved by being edited into a "what Wolfram really meant to say in that book" precis that includes the main points in maybe 1/4 the space, and with a different tone.