summarize

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Every time you ask it to summarize a book you haven’t read, recall a fact you could have retrieved yourself, or draft a thought you were about to form, you’ve skipped a cognitive rep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Scientific statements summarize current knowledge and identify areas for further research.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

Staff are using AI tools to draft documents, summarize research, and assist with coding, he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

“Each time samurai would commit the ritual suicide of seppuku, they would first read the death poem they had prepared in order to summarize their life and make sense of it,” Murakami said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

We can summarize this in two words: Science Works.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton