To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review(verb)
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Use "summarise" in a sentence
"First, I didn't "summarise", I pretty much quoted from the front page."
"You can see how we kind of summarise it in our reviews of"
"Spare a thought for me on the big week as I summarise every article and photo in every paper with its souvenir pull-out while you all spend your day down the pub.missfrost online• It is pleasantly satisfying for us monarchists to see a rabid republican newspaper like the Guardian producing a royal supplement."