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
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.
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Dan Gooding
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
The tune suddenly becomes a bestseller on two rundowns again.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Dan Gooding
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
The tune suddenly becomes a bestseller on two rundowns again.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rundowns
summaries
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Penske says roughly 20% of Google searches leading to its sites now display AI Overviews — and, here’s the rub, that those summaries lift material from publishers’ work, answer the user’s query directly on the results page, and keep readers from clicking through.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, some of the summaries broke off in the middle of a sentence with no obvious way to read the missing text.—
Edward Mendelson,
PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Rundowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rundowns. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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