as in outlines
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
the closing minute of the newscast summarizes the main story of the day
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Recent Examples of summarizes
That pretty much summarizes the film’s plot.
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
The tool summarizes conversations across Slack channels, extracting insights from messages, documents and files.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
The slow pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be counted.
—ABC News, 9 June 2026
The slow counting pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be tallied.
—Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
The Downshift summarizes news items in a few sentences, with links to other sites to get the deeper story.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 3 June 2026
Among those records was the Board of Nursing order, which summarizes a state investigation into nurse anesthetist John Stevenson, who settled the case against him by signing the document in November.
—Brett Kelman, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Airbnb said its chatbot tool can now fix booking issues within the chat, and the company is adding an AI feature that summarizes guest reviews.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 20 May 2026
Neither firm responded to a request to confirm that the museum’s statement completely summarizes the results of its investigation.
—Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
The tool summarizes conversations across Slack channels, extracting insights from messages, documents and files.
—Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
The slow pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be counted.
—ABC News, 9 June 2026
The slow counting pace is due to a law that requires each ballot and each tally sheet, which summarizes the votes from each polling station, to be taken to one of more than 100 offices to be tallied.
—Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
The Downshift summarizes news items in a few sentences, with links to other sites to get the deeper story.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 3 June 2026
Among those records was the Board of Nursing order, which summarizes a state investigation into nurse anesthetist John Stevenson, who settled the case against him by signing the document in November.
—Brett Kelman, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Airbnb said its chatbot tool can now fix booking issues within the chat, and the company is adding an AI feature that summarizes guest reviews.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 20 May 2026
Neither firm responded to a request to confirm that the museum’s statement completely summarizes the results of its investigation.
—Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summarizes
Verb
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The non-binding agreement outlines a framework for the companies to evaluate technical and commercial details.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 June 2026
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The framework also outlines measures da Zaeli said are needed to ensure legal certainty, avoid undue liability and safeguard the right to full defense and due process.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
Verb
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The film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, stars Holland, who reprises his role as Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
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Oscar Nunez reprises his role as Oscar Martinez in the new show.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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