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overviewing

overviewing is the present participle and gerund of overview.

Meaning of overview

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

  1. (transitive) To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
    • Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice, →ISBN, page 313

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Questions about overviewing

What is overviewing the present participle and gerund of?
Overviewing is the present participle and gerund of overview.

Words near overviewing in the dictionary

  1. overview
  2. overview effect
  3. overview effects
  4. overviewable
  5. overviewed
  6. overviewing
  7. overviews
  8. overvigorous
  9. overvigorously
  10. overviolent
  11. overvisited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overviewing (page history and authors); overview (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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