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sums up

verb as in form an opinion of; summarize

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In 175 well-chosen words, he sums up the trials and the grit and bravery of the civil rights movement.

But perhaps another errant remark by Hickenlooper recorded at the meeting sums up the whole imbroglio best.

If one word—soccer (or football)—sums up Uruguay, two words—Luis Suárez—capture the potency of the Uruguayan game.

They will be applauded by young and old alike, and that pretty much sums up Montreal.

His slaying sums up the lawlessness now gripping the region and the impunity with which separatists can act.

And then he sums up by saying, "Man is made up of bits and oddities."

He sums up his argument in the first edition in three propositions.

That really sums up their functions, although we are going to study them in detail.

During the last few years a work has been issued which sums up the conclusions of modern criticism better than any other book.

The hero of "Resurrection" sums up in a few words this sympathy for the people: "This is it, the big world, the true world!"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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