Summarizing meaning

Summarizing is defined as taking a lot of information and creating a condensed version that covers the main points.

An example of summarizing is writing a three or four-sentence description that touches upon the main points of a long book.

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Sentence Examples

  • We agreed the tests were finished for the day but mellowed by wine; we spent two more evening hours summarizing our findings.

  • There is a good sketch summarizing modern opinion by E.

  • This article is confined to summarizing the philosophical or scientific arguments for, and objections to, the doctrine of the persistence of the human soul after death.

  • In this, his work was the summarizing and inditing of the official letters and dispatches of the Holy See, combined with the functions of confidential secretary.

  • When Cardinal Duprat convened his Synod of Paris in 1528 to discuss the new religion, Clichtove was summoned and was entrusted with the task of collecting and summarizing the objections to the Lutheran doctrine.

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