summaries

noun

plural of summary
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 The constitutional amendment would add safeguards to ensure fair ballot summaries and require an 80% vote in the state Legislature to reverse laws passed through citizen initiatives. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026 The library spans over 2,000 titles across productivity, leadership, psychology, health, and personal finance, with new summaries added regularly. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026 To absolutely no one’s surprise, Google’s search-result AI summaries have led to a drop in traffic for everyone, Ars included. — Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026 At a Glance creates bullet-point summaries of existing articles, while BBC Style Assist helps edit regional stories in the broadcaster’s signature style and voice. — Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, The Conversation, 29 July 2026 Customers, investors and partners will form opinions based on search results and AI summaries. — Victoria Marshall, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The agency has handled more than 63 million entry summaries for the current fiscal year that ends in September. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 July 2026 Beyond pondering whether to cut Google off, other publishers have resorted to suing the company, accusing it of illegally rehashing their intellectual property via AI summaries. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 23 July 2026 Last year, Chegg sued Google in federal district court, claiming that its AI summaries of search results hurt the company's traffic and revenue. — Cj Haddad, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summaries
  1. outlines
  2. digests
  3. briefs
  4. inventories
  5. sums
  6. synopses
Noun
  • Compressed color values—in contrast to the wide modulations in tone that Cassatt allowed elsewhere—heighten the sense of mass, while unexpected bright blue outlines seal their contours.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Alternatively, the president could start over and build a plan consistent with the doctrine’s outlines.
    — KORI SCHAKE, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of outlines
Noun
  • This is because the fermentation process involved in making sourdough bread pre-digests, or breaks down, some of the wheat components—including gluten.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 29 May 2026
  • Momentum is firm and trending higher even as the price digests.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of digests
Noun
  • Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins joined the mayors of Boston, Cincinnati and Kansas City, Missouri, in amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court earlier this year opposing the termination.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Scholars and practitioners now advise Chinese entities on responding promptly to foreign litigation, avoiding default judgments, and presenting Chinese legal positions through expert testimony and amicus briefs.
    — Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of briefs
Noun
  • Yet the military’s own acquisition efforts acknowledge limits to existing inventories.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • Closer to home, Liverpool have shown the pitfalls of an expensive facelift, splurging record sums on Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak last summer only to free-fall from champions to a meek fifth-place finish.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Brand New Day scored the best-ever domestic box office sums for a Monday and a Tuesday on its way to becoming the second-fastest feature to cross the billion-dollar mark globally after reaching the threshold in six days, bested only by Endgame.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of sums
Noun
  • See the full list of additions to Rooftop’s summer film series below, with all synopses provided by Rooftop.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 July 2026
  • See full details, including Denver Film synopses and each show’s openers, below.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of synopses

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