as in summary
a general explanation or description of something
I was asked to give an overview of the company's sales figures. This book provides a broad overview of American history.
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Recent Examples of overview
Our course provides an overview of common passive income streams, from creating digital products like printables to selling merchandise online using print-on-demand services.
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Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
The overview effect is a phenomenon known to occur for those lucky enough to travel beyond the bounds of our gravity well, in which the view of our planet from space changes one's perception of his or home planet and humanity.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 May 2025
Here is an overview of some ways in which boys and young men aren’t thriving.
—Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 13 May 2025
My session stretched almost two hours, including a half-hour theory overview on the dunes.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
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Cnbc Make It Staff, CNBC, 19 May 2025
The overview effect is a phenomenon known to occur for those lucky enough to travel beyond the bounds of our gravity well, in which the view of our planet from space changes one's perception of his or home planet and humanity.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 May 2025
Here is an overview of some ways in which boys and young men aren’t thriving.
—Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 13 May 2025
My session stretched almost two hours, including a half-hour theory overview on the dunes.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for overview
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overview
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This was the 21st flight for the first stage, including 13 prior Starlink missions, according to a flight summary on SpaceX's website.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter, The Spot. Updated 11:30 a.m. June 3, 2025: Because the bill’s summary was not updated to reflect legislative changes, this story originally misreported the final language of House Bill 1146.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
3 June 2025
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The outline of the initial report — a contract extension for Crow-Armstrong potentially worth around $75 million — has been characterized as inaccurate.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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In 2019, then-Senate Banking Chair Mike Crapo, an Idaho Republican, released a three-page outline that would turn the institutions into private guarantors with a limited share of the mortgage market.—
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,
Quartz,
28 May 2025
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Case in point: Stocks temporarily came off their lows after a better-than-expected consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan, which showed that respondents’ one-year inflation expectations came down from the very high levels seen in prior readings.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
30 May 2025
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For example, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has identified about 800 TNOs — and that's even though DES is ostensibly a cosmological survey.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 May 2025
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“Overview.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overview. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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