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Recent Examples of summarize Desplat also summarized the essence of the story and the film. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025 Two short reports that summarize this process as applied to both polls are available online. Ryan Kennedy, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025 Built-in Microsoft Teams keeps you connected, while the new Copilot AI assistant can summarize web pages, adjust system settings, and even generate content on demand. PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025 Gary could crank out reports in seconds, summarize meetings, and even suggest marketing copy that was… well, not bad. Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for summarize
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Verb
  • According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified).
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s start by outlining the situation that motivated inflation, what the idea of inflation is, and what the theory does (and doesn’t) predict, both generically and in gory detail.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Proteins are the workhorses of the human body, responsible for everything from digesting food to fighting infections.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Cincinnati digested the latest drubbing against Detroit knowing the only answers at quarterback were outside the building.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Summarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summarize. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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