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Deck

Deck

Original book (April 2020) · p. 13

Illustration by Isabela Flores de Moura for Deck
Illustration by Isabela Flores de Moura · original book p. 13

A presentation, typically created in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Usage: “Over the next 45 minutes, we will answer your four questions with the aid of our 243-slide PowerPoint deck.”

Like a deck of cards, you can drop most printed PowerPoint decks on the floor and pick them up in any random order, and the end result will make as much sense to the reader or listener regardless of how it is shuffled.

More precisely, being on the receiving end of a PowerPoint deck usually feels like getting decked in the head.