summing-up
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The inquest has now adjourned and the coroner's summing-up to the jury will resume on Monday 29 June before the jury goes out to consider its verdict.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The Christmas broadcasts have long served as a kind of annual summing-up about the doings of the royal family, including births, heirs, anniversaries, jubilees and deaths.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2022
In April of last year, NBC anchor Lester Holt did a summing-up report on Afghanistan as "America's longest war" by offering one and only one casualty figure: "2,300 American deaths."
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022
Coppola had originally envisioned the film as “a summing-up and an interpretation of the first two movies, rather than a third movie,” he said in an interview with The Times last year.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
Before Pirow’s summing-up, Berrange announced he would apply for our discharge on the grounds that the state had not offered sufficient evidence against us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
They are deployed for pauses and interruptions in speech; they precede bursts of exposition, neat summings-up and lengthy tangents.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
One can't make a task-work of dialogue; there must be biting touches, summings-up, and flashes of wit, which are the blossoms of the mind, and come rather by inspiration than reflection.
From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
