as in outlines
a short statement of the main points
many book reports choose to begin with a summary of the book
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Recent Examples of summaries
Readers can ask questions, generate summaries, create audio stories, or translate reports, all within one consistent experience.
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Mark Howard, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
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, 3 Nov. 2025
Google investors wanted to know how AI summaries and agents are changing how the company makes money from search.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Investors have been watching for any changes to Reddit's user growth amid Google increasingly debuting generative AI features like AI Overview, which provides summaries to search questions.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
If everything gets boiled down to AI summaries, the internet might start to feel like Wikipedia.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Rather, the content came from Google searches that included short summaries of Reddit articles.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Many users may take these summaries at face value, rather than investigating the sourcing and accuracy further.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Mark Howard, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
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, 3 Nov. 2025
Google investors wanted to know how AI summaries and agents are changing how the company makes money from search.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Investors have been watching for any changes to Reddit's user growth amid Google increasingly debuting generative AI features like AI Overview, which provides summaries to search questions.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
If everything gets boiled down to AI summaries, the internet might start to feel like Wikipedia.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Rather, the content came from Google searches that included short summaries of Reddit articles.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Many users may take these summaries at face value, rather than investigating the sourcing and accuracy further.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summaries
Noun
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His process involved mapping the sun’s path, calculating angles, sketching outlines, and planning how light would travel across the surface, before burning the image onto a piece of untreated wood.—
TIME PR,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Slides can generate presentation outlines, create slides, and design professional graphics on demand.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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Wilson’s also said his deputies had filed briefs with inaccurate legal references in two other cases, but that they were caused by human error, not AI.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Amicus briefs from across the political spectrum press the simple point that the IEEPA doesn’t authorize this, and an emergency cannot be a long-running condition that has coincided with rising American prosperity.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
7 Nov. 2025
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However, the analysts warned that low chip inventories could still cause disruptions in the near term.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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Because newborn monkeys take a few years to reach the suitable age for experiments, facilities sometimes supplement their inventories.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Defense attorney Marc Carlos argued Friday that prosecutors failed to turn up evidence that Bonillo was being paid large sums of money by the cartel.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Otherwise, the state or large cities would need to pay huge sums to fellow CAP users to persuade them to forgo their water and let more vulnerable users stay wet.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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In September 2025 Keep reading for the best new and returning TV shows arriving on streaming platforms in September 2025, including their premiere dates, synopses and where to watch them.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Summaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summaries. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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