SUMMED UP Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

summed up

verb

past tense of sum up

as in summarized

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) in summing up the evidence against the defendant, the district attorney presented fact after damning fact

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Recent Examples of summed up England’s hapless performance was summed up by the winning Australian runs coming from a wide from Ecclestone that raced to the boundary. — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026 Glanville, whose company is currently working to develop a universal flu vaccine, among others, summed up the impact of these and other vaccines in America. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026 Flowers recalled a moment that summed up how much Reeder meant to her daughter. — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026 As the barbers trimmed patients’ beards, one man summed up the experience in a single word. — ABC News, 30 June 2026 Another user perfectly summed up the impact the singing competition in the fictional language has on society. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026 When Doyle was sentenced in that case in 2011, US District Judge Colleen McMahon summed up his record in unusually direct terms. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, one of the attendees at the dinner, summed up the mood of indecision. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 23 June 2026 Following his team’s 3-0 loss Tuesday to Argentina in a World Cup match at Kansas City Stadium (aka Arrowhead), Algeria’s Ibrahim Maza summed up the difference in the match. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed up

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For musical theater historians, this shift could be summarized as a handoff from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim, whose postmodern cynicism and fractured narratives better match the tenor of the times.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 July 2026
One guest summarized what went wrong with what was supposed to be the wedding of the year.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

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The funding was announced during a virtual meeting on clean cooking in Africa convened by IEA and Kenya, where leaders reviewed progress made since the last summit and outlined priorities ahead of the next gathering later this year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
While the stocks outlined in Tuesday's note were broadly European firms, the authors stressed that the HALO trade was an international trend.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 July 2026