Definition of "summing up" []

• Present participle of sum up. (verb)

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• "Even the academic Barbara Newman, in summing up this tradition, could not escape from using language redolent of sacred sexuality when she described it as:"
• "Or, as Carleton Fisk says, summing up the feelings of baseball fans everywhere: How can a guy making $3 million be underpaid?"
• "Inside, a long article about me declared near the top of the story, “Here comes 19-year-old Apolo Ohno, the name summing up divine talent and ungodly trouble,” adding a few sentences later, “Now comes Ohno, a diamond stud in his ear, a whiff of scandal in his wake.”"