as in summaries
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 overviews
This can increase the chance of your answers being displayed (and your brand being mentioned) in AI overviews.
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Chelsea Tobin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Find a free calendar or to-do template online and print out weekly or daily overviews to keep everyone aware of what’s going on.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
The Great Morel website publishes yearly overviews of each morel hunting season.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
Travel booking sites like Kayak and TripAdvisor are also concerned about Google’s AI search overviews chipping away at traffic, Forbes reported.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Plenty of people have griped about Google's AI overviews since their rollout.
—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
Chelsea Tobin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Find a free calendar or to-do template online and print out weekly or daily overviews to keep everyone aware of what’s going on.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
The Great Morel website publishes yearly overviews of each morel hunting season.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
Travel booking sites like Kayak and TripAdvisor are also concerned about Google’s AI search overviews chipping away at traffic, Forbes reported.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Plenty of people have griped about Google's AI overviews since their rollout.
—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overviews
Noun
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The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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These summaries read like a bad high school essay and insult your audience's intelligence.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Prairie Village’s rules mirror Leawood’s, with similar outlines to age requirements for class 3 e-bikes in particular, yielding and giving audible signals to pedestrians, following manufacturer recommendations and not allowing distracted or reckless operation of the device.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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Ascending patterns elsewhere in the strings blur the outlines of that governing idea.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Criticism of Israel has been muted within the Republican Party, tracking with surveys that show broad approval of Israel’s military operation among GOP voters.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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To identify workaholics, the researchers used established psychological surveys that measure both excessive and compulsive working tendencies.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Overviews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overviews. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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