summarize
verb
sum·ma·rize
ˈsə-mə-ˌrīz 
summarized; summarizing
: to tell in or reduce to a summary
: to make a summary
summarizer
noun
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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Even their cooking videos — the main way the family teaches Chinese techniques — are often scraped and summarized by Google’s AI Overviews.
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Davey Alba, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Interviews with Bess and Owen summarized in the affidavit offer conflicting reports on what happened on the drive home from the bar, but the victim allegedly made a move or motion that Owen took as an advance on Bess.
—The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
The sequence of events is complex, but worth summarizing for its audacity.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Bentley’s film—co-written by Greg Kwedar, who directed Sing Sing and co-wrote that movie with Bentley—is linear, only looking backward or forward for fleeting, intrusive shots in montages that evoke a life being summarized in a breathless, rushed fashion, maybe not even by the person who lived it.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
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Davey Alba, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Interviews with Bess and Owen summarized in the affidavit offer conflicting reports on what happened on the drive home from the bar, but the victim allegedly made a move or motion that Owen took as an advance on Bess.
—The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
The sequence of events is complex, but worth summarizing for its audacity.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Bentley’s film—co-written by Greg Kwedar, who directed Sing Sing and co-wrote that movie with Bentley—is linear, only looking backward or forward for fleeting, intrusive shots in montages that evoke a life being summarized in a breathless, rushed fashion, maybe not even by the person who lived it.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
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“Summarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summarize. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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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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