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summarize

 verb
     
sum‧mar‧ize also summarise British English [intransitive and transitive]
to make a short statement giving only the main information and not the details of a plan, event, report etc [= sum up]:
The authors summarize their views in the introduction.
to summarize
To summarize, in most cases the schools were achieving the standards set.
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