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sum up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. summary, sum-upverb

    a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form

    "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

  2. sum up, summarize, summarise, resumeverb

    give a summary (of)

    "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

  3. summarize, summarise, sum, sum upverb

    be a summary of

    "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

  4. total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add upverb

    determine the sum of

    "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"

Wiktionary

  1. sum upverb

    to summarize

ChatGPT

  1. sum up

    To sum up generally means to give a brief description or recap of something, often used to provide a summary or a succinct overview of points previously mentioned or discussed. It can also refer to the act of calculating the total of a collection of numbers or items.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sum up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sum up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sum up in a Sentence

  1. Robert Frost:

    In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

  2. ― Robert Frost:

    In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

  3. Mike Pompeo:

    The president of the United States gave a speech that smeared half the country. He identified half the country as enemies of the state, his principles, the things that we have been living through these last now year and a half plus, I sum up in three ideas: woke, weak and waffling.

  4. Babar Ahmad:

    Eleven years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words here and now, in time, I look forward to sharing reflections on my experience to help inform others.

  5. Habib Balian:

    Those nine words sum up the entire case.


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