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Noun
Other amenities include daily videos and photos of all your activities and a weekly sum-up video. Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024 But Biden, who was to try to showcase NATO’s strength in a sum-up speech Wednesday evening, was not willing to take that step, even as the United States continues to provide more weapons and ammunition than any other country to Ukraine. Chris Megerian and Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
Verb
Bottom line Linde’s quarter, outlook, and commentary can be summed up in one word: steady. Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 1 May 2025 For all of their success, for all of their promise, the 2024-25 season can only be summed up one way. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sum-up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sum-up
Noun
  • But his summary of the key moment is a nice analysis of the risk-and-reward of shooting for the near post, rather than crossing.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 May 2025
  • Liquidity management teams adjust positions throughout the day using streaming market data, instead of waiting for end-of-day summaries.
    Murugan Lakshmanan, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • To summarize, here are some steps to get started: Self-reflection: Assess your interests, values, and long-term goals.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • What now in Toronto? To summarize: In the first round, the Leafs jumped out to a 3-0 lead against an overwhelmed wild-card opponent and flirted with blowing the series before closing it out in six.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Physicist Matthew von Hippel looks not at the birth of the universe but at its destruction, outlining a disastrous world-ending scenario that makes asteroid strikes and Earth-colliding black holes look like kid stuff.
    Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • On Monday, investors took note of the risks Moody’s outlined in explaining its decision to downgrade US debt to one notch below perfect.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 20 May 2025

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