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in short
in short · in a word · to sum up · to put it simply · to make a long story short · after all
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • In a word, life is short.

  • In brief, Sherlock lives.

  • The long and the short of it is that I was fired.

  • The man, in short, is not to be trusted.

  • In short, he's run off without paying off his debt.

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