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When provided separately with an overview of the story via text to his phone, he responded simply: “Can talk after 3/31.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Many advisers offer a free introductory meeting to provide a general overview of how they’d manage your money.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

"For the most part I just have the vague overview of what's going on and then I kind of step away," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” a revelatory overview of a remarkable woman’s long working life, should change that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

To be fair, sometimes the topic of conversation really is the activity of researchers, such as an overview intended to introduce graduate students or other insiders to the scholarly literature in their chosen profession.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker