summaries

noun

plural of summary
as in outlines
a short statement of the main points many book reports choose to begin with a summary of the book

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Recent Examples of summaries The memo provides a summary of the agreement between Google and Entergy, as well as summaries of testimony provided by Entergy officials in support of the contract. — Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026 Structuring this with clean schema, FAQs and listicles ensures both AI summaries and real searchers choose our client’s sites. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 According to investigative summaries from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, surveillance footage captured the 29-year-old pacing on the sidewalk and monitoring the victims’ vehicle before pulling a handgun and shooting them. — Evonne Andris, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Earlier this year, lawmakers passed a law signed by Moore that set a July 1 deadline for the secretary of state to certify summaries of all statewide ballot questions to the Maryland State Board of Elections. — David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Business units received monthly summaries tracking demographic goals and Deloitte managers were evaluated in their contributions in reaching those goals, the DOJ said. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 The software could also generate summaries after each exercise. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026 These include monthly summaries involving blood pressure trends, sleep breathing quality and insulin resistance trends. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026 The library spans over 2,000 titles across productivity, leadership, psychology, health, and personal finance, with new summaries added regularly. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summaries
  1. outlines
  2. digests
  3. briefs
  4. inventories
  5. sums
  6. synopses
Noun
  • Abrams said the broad outlines of a war with Iran, including it contesting the Strait of Hormuz, were well understood in national security circles before the fighting began.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Many of the risks Gates outlines are specific to richer, Western countries.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of outlines
Noun
  • This is because the fermentation process involved in making sourdough bread pre-digests, or breaks down, some of the wheat components—including gluten.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 29 May 2026
  • Momentum is firm and trending higher even as the price digests.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of digests
Noun
  • The Buckeye Institute – along with a number of other conservative groups that have filed supportive briefs – want the justices to also revisit a 2005 decision that affirmed a broad interpretation of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
  • After attorneys at the end of this month file additional briefs on their respective arguments, Cogburn is expected to decide what will happen to the final federal charge.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of briefs
Noun
  • As crude inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drain toward their operational limits, America is left, armed with just 300 million barrels.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Missile inventories cannot refill instantly because the underlying network was never built for sudden, sustained high-volume demand.
    — Dennis Mitzner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • After Musk left, OpenAI launched massively successful AI products, namely ChatGPT, struck partnerships with tech titans including Microsoft, converted its business into a for-profit with a non-profit parent, and raised huge sums of funding.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Billionaires can volunteer large sums of cash without being forced to do so.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of sums
Noun
  • See the full list of additions to Rooftop’s summer film series below, with all synopses provided by Rooftop.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 July 2026
  • See full details, including Denver Film synopses and each show’s openers, below.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of synopses

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“Summaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summaries. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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