summarize
verb (used with object)
to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
summarizable
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a word derived from
summarize.
Example Sentences
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The most common misreading of “Don Quixote” is to see it as offering a stable and summarizable truth.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2017
Still, a contrarian might argue that there is, fundamentally, just a single basic plot, summarizable in five words: “A stranger comes to town.”
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016
And anyway, as Roth plaintively points out, a work of literary fiction isn’t summarizable in a two-to-three minute spot—novels already stand as the only possible expressions of themselves!
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2016
Maybe that's because he died when he was only 31 years old, his work and personality still unfinished, therefore not fully knowable or easily summarizable.
From Time Magazine Archive
