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sum up

[suhm-uhp] / ˈsʌmˌʌp /


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How would you sum up your investment thesis for infrastructure investment, whether software or hardware?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

"He means a lot," said Carrick, when asked to sum up Fernandes' contribution.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

She is one of the finest singer-songwriters this country ever produced, and it’s inconceivable to sum up her catalog in just an LP’s worth of tunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

I frequently struggle to find the right words to describe the elements weaving together the concrete and the conceptual, so I find it simpler to sum up all that as magic.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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