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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Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
That pretty much summarizes the film’s plot.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
Larger teams of coding agents also spent more time summarizing each other’s ideas and less time actually using the robots, and the coding agents sometimes failed to make full use of available compute resources when launching parallel training sessions.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026
The insoluble character of Alfa’s best records is reflected in his biography, which is difficult to neatly summarize.
—H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026
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“Summarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summarize. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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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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