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 With a Bee Pro subscription, which costs $12 per month, users can get unlimited conversation summaries and daily memories as well as integrations with Amazon's webstore, its Alexa+ AI assistant and third-party apps. — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 The rollout includes Genmoji, notification summaries, Writing Tools, and the Clean Up photo-editing tool. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 With cross-platform lock support via Aliro, dual-camera coverage for package tracking, and practical Siri AI video summaries, the new Apple Home Collection shows genuine promise. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 Brands have little to no data about their products outside of returns, reviews, and high-level quality summaries from the factory. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 Why the grant assumption carries risks Budget summaries from the Department of Finance, the State Superintendent’s office, the Assembly and the Senate all describe the block grant as one-time funding. — Chaewon Chung updated October 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Apple says those options can include visual search, questions about the screen, text summaries, Read Aloud and actions such as adding an event to Calendar. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 But detailed summaries of the punishments obtained by The New York Times provide the first look at how Cornell administrators apportioned blame for the alcohol and drug-fueled gathering that the woman has said left her shattered and degraded. — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Agentic systems require enterprises to understand where personal data is transformed into summaries, classifications, profiles, embeddings or other persistent outputs that may still relate to an individual. — Kobi Nissan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summaries
  1. outlines
  2. digests
  3. briefs
  4. inventories
  5. sums
  6. synopses
Noun
  • These are perfect negatives of the original objects, sometimes so detailed that the outlines of wood cells are visible under a microscope.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Lichtenstein rose to prominence for canvases that drew inspiration from bold black outlines, flat bright colors, and fields of dots that defined commercial printing across comic books, advertisements, and newspapers.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 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 court asked both sides to file briefs in the case, in which basketball player Filip Borovićanin is the lead plaintiff, by next Monday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The reply follows opposition briefs from the Puyallup School District, Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of briefs
Noun
  • And inventories of used electric vehicles dropped too, with only 31 days of supply in May, 23% below the year before.
    — John Paul Helveston, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The group warned that even if refineries step up production of diesel into the year-end, inventories will likely remain strained until the second half of 2027.
    — Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • The London Invitational may be intimate, but the sums associated with its offerings are big.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The 2026 fiscal year saw record sums for both receipts and outlays, according to a Treasury Department official.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Oct. 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 20 Oct. 2026.

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