aperçu
noun
a hasty glance; a glimpse.
aperçus
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pluralof aperçu.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Herzen’s character sketches and aperçus amount to an intellectual and political history of Russia and Western Europe in the first two-thirds of the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2020
Poniewozik contrives many memorable aperçus to indicate Trump’s shape-shifting over the decades, in response to his environment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2019
The title of this fine little book is open, perhaps, to some objection: the contents are not, as a rule, either maxims or reflections, but aperçus; and that is what they should be called.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
