as in summary
a short statement of the main points
what you wrote goes way beyond a summarization of the speech
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Recent Examples of summarization
For example, documentation summarization for onboarding new engineers, sales enablement tools that auto-tailor pitches based on CRM signals or auto-tagging of product feedback to inform roadmap prioritization.
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Agur Jõgi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Following these incidents, Apple was forced to temporarily pause summarization for news apps.
—PC Magazine, 23 July 2025
Newer, more powerful Chromebooks will soon have image generation, text summarization, and more built into the OS.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
The company has long provided a developer framework called Core ML that can pull in open source offerings, including models focused on image classification, summarization and responses to questions.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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Agur Jõgi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Following these incidents, Apple was forced to temporarily pause summarization for news apps.
—PC Magazine, 23 July 2025
Newer, more powerful Chromebooks will soon have image generation, text summarization, and more built into the OS.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
The company has long provided a developer framework called Core ML that can pull in open source offerings, including models focused on image classification, summarization and responses to questions.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for summarization
summary
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Over time, as AI tools became more integrated into our daily workflows—think live financial reporting or even inviting AI agents to meetings (remember AI doesn’t have a career at stake) to provide unbiased summaries—employee trust grew, and skepticism diminished.—
Paul Hudson,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
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They’re handed last month’s P&L and a cash flow summary, and assume that’s enough.—
Kirk W. McLaren,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Summarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summarization. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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