as in summaries
a short statement of the main points
a rundown of the suspect's lengthy police record
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Recent Examples of rundowns
While Sour can be located on just a pair of rundowns, Guts fills spaces on twice as many charts in America.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
After a couple of rundowns, WVU baserunners safely occupied all three bases.
—Gary Bedore
may 23, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2026
Realizing that late-night sketches would no longer be appreciated, Colbert and team winged it — no rundowns, no scripts.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026
Read on as Entertainment Weekly rundowns of what the Sons of Anarchy stars have been up to since the series ended.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
Carter’s process begins with detailed scene-by-scene rundowns cataloging locations, times of day, characters, props, graphics, and special effects.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Meyers is a longtime critic of the president, frequently providing his viewers with satirical rundowns of the latest White House news and the president's actions, including his posts on Truth Social.
—Dan Gooding
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
After a couple of rundowns, WVU baserunners safely occupied all three bases.
—Gary Bedore
may 23, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2026
Realizing that late-night sketches would no longer be appreciated, Colbert and team winged it — no rundowns, no scripts.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026
Read on as Entertainment Weekly rundowns of what the Sons of Anarchy stars have been up to since the series ended.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
Carter’s process begins with detailed scene-by-scene rundowns cataloging locations, times of day, characters, props, graphics, and special effects.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Meyers is a longtime critic of the president, frequently providing his viewers with satirical rundowns of the latest White House news and the president's actions, including his posts on Truth Social.
—Dan Gooding
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rundowns
summaries
Noun
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Clinicians who wanted to compare new trial data depended on journals, institutional summaries or conference presentations.—
Ami Bhatt,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Add splits to run summaries (rolling out this week).—
Stevie Bonifield,
The Verge,
27 May 2026
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“Rundowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rundowns. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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