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ˈsʌm əˌraɪzsum·ma·rize

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sum up, summarize, summarise, resumeverb

    give a summary (of)

    "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

  2. summarize, summarise, sum, sum upverb

    be a summary of

    "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

Wiktionary

  1. summarizeverb

    To prepare a summary of something

  2. summarizeverb

    To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review

  3. Etymology: From English summary + -ize.

Wikipedia

  1. Summarize

    Summarize is the first single released from Australian indie rock band Little Birdys third studio album, Confetti. It was released on 10 April 2009 and the single made it to number 54 on the ARIA charts. Two versions were released: a CD single featuring the track "One in a Million", and an iTunes version which featured the track "Sorrow" instead. Additionally, the song "Brother" was moved from Track 5 (CD) to Track 4 (iTunes).

ChatGPT

  1. summarize

    To summarize means to provide a condensed, brief account or overview of the main points of a piece of information, event, or piece of literature, often eliminating repetitive, less important, or supplementary details. This could include extracting the main ideas from an article, summarizing the plot of a story, or encapsulating the findings of a research study.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Summarizeverb

    to comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of summarize in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of summarize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of summarize in a Sentence

  1. Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri:

    To summarize, national authorities should strive to build trust and achieve more cross-border recognition of comparable regulatory requirements.

  2. William Barr:

    We were not trying to summarize the report.

  3. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

  4. Saul Bass:

    Symbolize and summarize.

  5. Chris Christie:

    That will summarize what the far left's view is about domestic oil production.

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