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summary

[suhm-uh-ree] / ˈsʌm ə ri /




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The summary went on: "Mr Venables articulated his protracted and extreme remorse for his crime. Professionals assessed this to be genuine and sincere."

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

A summary of opinions from the BOJ’s October meeting, due Tuesday, could provide hints on the timing for further monetary tightening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

But now, you might stop after the AI summary gives you what you need.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Instead of a final declaration, the source expects a chair summary drafted by the United States to be published from this week's meeting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“It’s old news,” I mutter as I begin to launch into a summary of what had happened to Annie, how I’d hacked into the school’s directory.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Google’s AI summaries at the top of its search-result pages are intercepting online traffic and keeping more people from clicking through to the sites being mined by the AI for information.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

In response to this threat, Google launched and expanded AI Overviews and AI Mode, placing AI summaries on top of traditional search results and introducing conversational search interfaces powered by its Gemini models.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Google's omnipresent search engine now defaults to AI summaries of a person's query, and that hit the number of advertisements it was able to sell during the quarter.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Going into greater detail than earlier reports, Nardello & Co. included summaries of site visits to dozens of shelters and permanent housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

None of them was written by Peregrin, but he and his successors collected many manuscripts written by scribes of Gondor: mainly copies or summaries of histories or legends relating to Elendil and his heirs.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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