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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 Bain & Company found that 80% of consumers now rely on AI summaries for at least 40% of their searches, and that organic traffic has fallen 15% to 25% as a result. — Boris Dzhingarov, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Strengthening connection with residents through timely updates, plain language summaries of major decisions and earlier community input. — Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 Reasoning paths and summaries are techniques some AI developers have used in distillation attacks, in which a model maker trains their technology on another model's outputs. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026 Amtrak has published online summaries of the environmental studies. — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 In some cases, news organizations found that chatbots would generate long excerpts of articles when users requested summaries of articles. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2026 The summaries have the stiff, cautious tone of a book report written by a student who only watched the movie. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 Hopefully, the summaries below continue to provide you with a weekly snapshot of each club’s performances across the 2026-27 Premier League. — Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Because many users are content with – or actively prefer – vague, simplified summaries, developers have optimized AI models to cater to that baseline. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summaries
  1. outlines
  2. digests
  3. briefs
  4. inventories
  5. sums
  6. synopses
Noun
  • Haring, whose artwork is characterized by bold outlines and rhythmic figures punctuated by playful wit, has become synonymous with the 1980s New York downtown art scene.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Things turned ugly when the outlines of the Khashoggi offer emerged.
    — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 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
  • The Block the Merger coalition and other opponents of the deal have filed amicus briefs reiterating their objections.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Judge Martinez-Olguin gave the concerned parties until the end of Thursday to submit the amicus briefs.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of briefs
Noun
  • Emergency inventories, meanwhile, have reached dangerously low levels and have not been replenished.
    — RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Blanch estimates at least 350 million barrels have disappeared from the global above-ground oil inventories since levels peaked in March.
    — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • Love quickly gained the trust of dozens of women, allegedly convincing them to give him large sums of money.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Measuring this wobble and doing some complicated sums gives the exact strength and orientation of the field to as low as 10⁻¹⁵ Teslas.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 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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“Summaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summaries. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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