as in summary
a short statement of the main points
a speech that could serve as a breviary for impeachment
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According to a summary of the agreement released by the city Friday, Los Angeles World Airports, the Port of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power would need to enter into their own service agreements with LA28.
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.
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The painting is a mini summa of two key tendencies running through Shahn’s work: self-quotation and cheekiness.
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Rabelais points out that there are oddities in the world that cannot fit into any classification scheme, more things in our heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either the medieval pretensions of the summa or the ambitious early modern bibliographic machines.
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There wasn’t a full script, there was an outline.
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Photos of the interior of the travel stop show a glittery chandelier made of guitars, with a logo on the front of the building that includes Parton's silhouette sitting on an outline of Tennessee, as seen in The New York Times.
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“Breviary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breviary. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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