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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The document contains hidden instructions that manipulate the summarization process.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
This could be anything from entity extraction, question answering, or text summarization to more complex tasks like code generation or creative writing.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
From summarization and translation to conversions and PDF chats, everything is automated to boost processing speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
—New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
Stories by McClatchy journalists, with AI summarization.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
This could be anything from entity extraction, question answering, or text summarization to more complex tasks like code generation or creative writing.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
From summarization and translation to conversions and PDF chats, everything is automated to boost processing speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
—New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
Stories by McClatchy journalists, with AI summarization.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for summarization
summary
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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
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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
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“Summarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summarization. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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