summing

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Duterte's defence lawyer Nicholas Kaufman, summing up his case, said that if his client could be faulted for anything, it was his "inappropriate choice of language".

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

The song was credited with summing up the depressed mood of the country at the time, with riots in several British cities in 1981.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

“He didn’t do drugs. He didn’t party. He made films,” Mr. Fischer writes, summing up the young Mr. Lucas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“The ones who aren’t creators or influencers see wearers as cringe,” Cohen said, sardonically summing up the general feeling of nonwearers as “Your life is not that cool, bro.”

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

“I says we got to make a fire and feed the baby and we don’t want to stay long anyway. I think summing funny’s going on. He had a strange look about him.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman