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a general explanation or description of something
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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Recent Examples of overview
The digital watermark is present in the pixels of images and videos and in the waveform of AI songs and audio overviews from products like NotebookLM.
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Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
The meeting gave an overview of residents’ recourse if their homes are directly impacted by construction.
—Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
Elsewhere Ritchie summarizes like an AI overview, with generic phases of the extraction plan, endlessly rehearsed in montages, broken down on screen, in large-font lists.
—Michael Phillips, Variety, 16 May 2026
This entry provides an overview of viral marketing, including the origins of the concept of digital virality and general principles of virality as a phenomenon and then features a discussion of best practices that are intended to make various pieces of marketing and advertising content go viral.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
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Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
The meeting gave an overview of residents’ recourse if their homes are directly impacted by construction.
—Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
Elsewhere Ritchie summarizes like an AI overview, with generic phases of the extraction plan, endlessly rehearsed in montages, broken down on screen, in large-font lists.
—Michael Phillips, Variety, 16 May 2026
This entry provides an overview of viral marketing, including the origins of the concept of digital virality and general principles of virality as a phenomenon and then features a discussion of best practices that are intended to make various pieces of marketing and advertising content go viral.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
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Word with Copilot drafts and summarizes documents; Teams with Copilot generates meeting summaries and captures action items; and Excel with Copilot handles data analysis useful for damages calculations and billing.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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While other operators submitted detailed incident summaries to the US regulator, Tesla blacked out every narrative entirely, labeling them as confidential business information.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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This basic outline is similar in scope to Apollo 9, a 1969 mission in which a three-astronaut crew spent 10 days testing the spacecraft’s ability to land on the moon from the comfort of low-Earth orbit.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
16 May 2026
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Legal professionals use ChatGPT to draft initial contract language, summarize legal documents, explain complex concepts in plain language, prepare deposition outlines, and structure legal arguments.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Bilingual interviewers began the interview in English and were instructed to follow the lead of the respondent in determining whether to conduct the survey in English or Spanish.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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But, as seen in her mid-career survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2019, and later as the exhibition traveled to the Whitney Museum in 2021, her work came to grapple with legacies of displacement, protest, capitalism, and climate change.—
Lilyanna D'Amato,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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“Overview.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overview. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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