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summing-up

[suhm-ing-uhp] / ˈsʌm ɪŋˈʌp /


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The coroner concluded his summing-up on Monday and the jury is expected to go out to consider its verdict on Tuesday morning.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

But unless you’re an Irving superfan craving a big summing-up, the novel’s muchness might simply suffocate.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 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

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




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