See tl;dr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014 June 17, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Here's How To Teach The Liberal Arts To High Schoolers”, in Forbes:",
"text": "Extracts or overviews should be substituted as needed. But insofar as possible, the whole books should be read. First of all, because many thinkers simply cannot be tl;dr'd. Second of all, because wrestling with, and immersing yourself in, and just reading through whole books is part of the education.",
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"ref": "2018 June 16, Peter Kafka, “MoviePass invested in ‘Gotti,’ the new John Travolta mob movie everyone hates”, in Vox:",
"text": "“A dismal mess,” says the New York Times. Its “shabby aesthetic and narrative shortcomings are outweighed by its more drastically questionable moral ones,” says the Guardian. “It’s not a good movie,” Entertainment Weekly TL;DRs.",
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"ref": "2021 June 30, Makena Kelly, “Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture”, in The Verge:",
"text": "I’ll tell you another thing that’s ironic about the Vidal-Buckley debates. Those debates can be TLDR’d into one of them calling the other “queer” as a pejorative and then the other calls the other a “fascist.”",
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"ref": "2021 August 20, Amy Kaufman et al., “‘Ted Lasso’ wrote a love letter to romantic comedies. We break down ‘rom-communism’”, in Los Angeles Times:",
"text": "Fortunately, Sutton Stracke soon emerged from her bedroom to tell her friends that she had, in fact, read the entire story. Kyle instantly begged her friend to TL;DR the “in-depth exposé,” which she deemed “so friggin’ long.”",
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"ref": "2022 December 20, Louis Ashworth, “Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement”, in Financial Times:",
"text": "Royal Bank of Canada’s economics team have tl;dr’d why JGBs and the yen have had a fun morning: “it will be hard for markets not to see this move as a precursor for tightening policy”.",
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