summarize
verb
sum·ma·rize
ˈsə-mə-ˌrīz 
summarized; summarizing
: to tell in or reduce to a summary
: to make a summary
summarizer
noun
Synonyms
Examples of summarize in a Sentence
I would like to take a moment to summarize the facts that I presented earlier.
He summarized by saying we needed better planning and implementation.
To summarize, we need better schools.
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Now that automating software coding has been tackled, Argenti said the firm’s next AI implementation will help knowledge workers with what’s known as document management, or repetitive tasks like summarizing text, producing excerpts, or augmenting documents with other data.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
To greater and lesser degrees, each record could be summarized by soaring guitars, earth-shaking crescendos, and blizzards of distortion.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Afterwards, Debrief will surface action items, summarize key points, draft emails, and save notes into Salesforce.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 26 June 2024
Those allegations will not be repeated here, other than to summarize the high likelihood of multiple money laundering violations.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
To greater and lesser degrees, each record could be summarized by soaring guitars, earth-shaking crescendos, and blizzards of distortion.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Afterwards, Debrief will surface action items, summarize key points, draft emails, and save notes into Salesforce.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 26 June 2024
Those allegations will not be repeated here, other than to summarize the high likelihood of multiple money laundering violations.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
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summarize
verb
sum·ma·rize
ˈsəm-ə-ˌrīz
summarized; summarizing
1
: to tell in or reduce to a summary
2
: to make a summary
summarizer
noun
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