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  • verb Present participle of summarize.

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Examples

  • Carville is correct in summarizing that our energy needs and dependence on (mostly foreign) oil is both the greatest economic issue and national security issue.

    Carville: Gore would make a great vice president...again 2008

  • My point in summarizing this lengthy series of scenes from last week's episode is that it bears certain, if tenuous, relations with what I'm hoping to write about as I continue my dissertation prospectus.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • My point in summarizing this lengthy series of scenes from last week's episode is that it bears certain, if tenuous, relations with what I'm hoping to write about as I continue my dissertation prospectus.

    "But History has already written that story" : Heroes Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Am I right in summarizing one key finding as being the relationship between employment and inflation rates is less straightforward than was previously assumed?

    Edmund S. Phelps - Interview 2006

  • Armies of Medieval Burgundy 1364-1477 by Nicholas Michael is a short Osprey title summarizing the uniforms weapons and tactics of the Duke of Burgundy's Army a transitional form between medieval and modern forces.

    Archive 2007-07-01 jmnlman 2007

  • Armies of Medieval Burgundy 1364-1477 by Nicholas Michael is a short Osprey title summarizing the uniforms weapons and tactics of the Duke of Burgundy's Army a transitional form between medieval and modern forces.

    Armies of Medieval Burgundy 1364-1477 by Nicholas Michael jmnlman 2007

  • I think it is fair in summarizing these forces to say that German military strength will probably reach its maximum capacity some time during 1940, and thereafter can be expected to decline vis-a-vis the Allied strength.

    Some Strategic Aspects of the War in 1940 1940

  • We've merely applied a label summarizing what we already knew-basically that the person has serious trouble containing his or her sexual impulses. "

    current.com top stories 2010

  • We've merely applied a label summarizing what we already knew-basically that the person has serious trouble containing his or her sexual impulses. "

    current.com top stories 2010

  • There’s not much point in summarizing what happens in this one, since the only way anyone is ever going to read it is if they’ve read the first two and enjoyed them.

    Book review: City of Glass, by Cassandra Clare ewillett 2009

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