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summary

[suhm-uh-ree] / ˈsʌm ə ri /




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Here is a summary of year-to-date returns, dividend yields and price ratios for the largest six U.S. banks’ stocks, leaving them in the same order as the tables above.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

But chain-of-thought narratives are merely an AI-generated summary of a model’s actual reasoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

After Cohen’s election, her office found itself in a public dispute over the state’s annual comprehensive financial report, a summary of California’s spending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Here is a summary of what we know so far.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

An A-plus for that summary, she thought: everything there and in its right relation with everything else, not a redundant word, clarity throughout.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

It also provided summaries of the model’s “chain of thought” for 10 results and estimated that the average result required only a fraction of the computing power that went into the Millennium Prize triumph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“For example, compaction summaries included instructions to invent missing historical data without disclosing it and to hide mismatches in source versions,” wrote OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Interruptions are an indication that you’re winning,” said Tarlov, evoking the pithy chapter summaries in “I Disagree.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The report said AI summaries tend to prioritise clinical information, which can come at the expense of the patients' stories and experiences of their illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

I really should have read her summaries, but it was too late.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen


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