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I was asked to give an overview of the company's sales figures.
This book provides a broad overview of American history.
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For a comprehensive overview of all of those features, check out our review of Norton VPN Ultimate.
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PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
His sweeping overview of life and ice at the northernmost latitudes offers a crucial exploration of the Arctic of our time and the things that scientists are still learning from it.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2025
In between checking in on the new collection’s progress, the film offers a fairly cursory overview of Jacobs’ career to date, beginning with his graduation from New York’s Parsons School of Design in the mid-Eighties.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
At the next quarterly board meeting, the marketing director provided an overview of what had happened in the previous quarter and their plans for the upcoming quarter.
—Adrian Swinscoe, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
His sweeping overview of life and ice at the northernmost latitudes offers a crucial exploration of the Arctic of our time and the things that scientists are still learning from it.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2025
In between checking in on the new collection’s progress, the film offers a fairly cursory overview of Jacobs’ career to date, beginning with his graduation from New York’s Parsons School of Design in the mid-Eighties.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
At the next quarterly board meeting, the marketing director provided an overview of what had happened in the previous quarter and their plans for the upcoming quarter.
—Adrian Swinscoe, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Overview.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overview. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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overview
noun
over·view
ˈō-vər-ˌvyü 
: a general survey : summary
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