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summarize

[suhm-uh-rahyz] / ˈsʌm əˌraɪz /


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AI can draft a memo or summarize a meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

To summarize, Nelson said: “It is important to let winners run. Common mistakes are to sell winners too soon and keep losers for too long.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

As investors increasingly use AI to crunch numbers and summarize earnings calls, this research shows that they should be wary of relying on it for trading advice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The company said the suite of tools can give any agent —an AI which can work autonomously— the ability to synthesize and summarize scientific knowledge, evaluate results, and then reason and execute the next actions.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader, as in To summarize and In order to start the motor in the examples above.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"We should not regard screen time solely as harmful but seek balance between physical activity and screen time that promotes active thinking," Jalanko summarizes.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Yeah, the skit you used of him saying “I’m just a man from the ghetto” on the song really summarizes that.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Another file summarizes statements from seven federal government employees who separately reported "several unidentified anomalous phenomena" in the United States in 2023.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

For client-facing roles, that comes in the form of the Client Intelligence Platform, a system that summarizes data from a variety of client touchpoints and helps managers prepare for meetings and interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

The break room summarizes the whole situation: there is none, because there are no breaks at Jerry’s.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research, summarized the market’s concerns in commentary shared with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta’s office summarized a strict new voter ID measure on November ballots — ruling that the summary language accurately describes the measure’s effects were it to pass.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

That behavior appears to conflict with Newton's third law, the famous action and reaction principle often summarized as "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

From Science Daily Jun. 16, 2026

“Most large companies have a view of their vendors that can be summarized as, ‘I’m going to allow you to do business with me, so that I can make money off of you.’”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

In 1694 William Wotton summarized the new science in a phrase: ‘Matter of Fact is the only Thing appealed to.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

According to Tim Mackey, a professor of global health at the University of California, San Diego, A.I. responses appear to be getting better at summarizing research, weighing credibility, and discerning misinformation.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

AI is disproportionately compressing the bottom layer of white-collar production: drafting, summarizing, coding, documentation, reporting and routine analytical work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The White House typically releases physician-written memos summarizing presidential physicals, translating full medical records into condensed clinical findings for public release.

From Salon May 31, 2026

The idea is called “lifecording” — that there’s an abundance of hardware devices recording your life, with AI processing, summarizing, searching and finding insights and connections.

From MarketWatch May 11, 2026

For a while, I required the girls to write up a little report after each visit, summarizing what they had learned, though eventually they started protesting and I let the idea go.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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