outlined

verb

past tense of outline
1
as in traced
to draw or make apparent the outline of she carefully outlined the tree before she started drawing in the leaves

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2
as in summarized
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) outlined the important points in the introduction

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Recent Examples of outlined The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has outlined a marginal (Level 1 out of 5) risk in an area that includes Phoenix and Tucson. — Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026 Musk previously outlined plans to send Tesla’s Optimus robots to the planet aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Oct. 2026 At a media briefing Wednesday, officials outlined months of preparation involving the Secret Service, FBI, FEMA, Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, the city of Doral, and regional transportation and airport authorities. — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Bruel spoke at the Rome conference as Italian and French producers and industry execs outlined a new Europe Investment Fund unveiled at the MIA Market to attract more international financing for European film and TV series. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Last month, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok even outlined a possible bank run scenario caused by AI. — Hugh Son,laya Neelakandan,leslie Picker,ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 As outlined in Emperor of Nothing, the bizarre chance encounter occurred June 12, 1994 at the posh Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, which David joined following the success of Seinfeld. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 Mann outlined the concept for the new show, which is coming out in the next couple of months. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 The fintech firm also outlined plans for a secondary listing on the Nigeria Stock Exchange after the NYSE debut to give local investors an opportunity to buy into a business that drives nearly nine-tenths of its revenue from Nigeria. — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlined
  1. traced
  2. summarized
  3. defined
  4. sketched
Verb
  • The ministry said that 134 of 135 contacts of the original patient have been traced and quarantined and the risk to the general public remains low.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The directors traced the idea back to long taxi rides home after meetings around the city.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of traced
Verb
  • That’s how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lin ousted as the company’s head of film.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The note summarized a cybercrime campaign in which three open-source AI agents allegedly worked together to breach at least 27 organizations and take more than 600,000 credit card records from two of them.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of summarized
Verb
  • Six additional states require registration of some firearms, such as handguns or those defined as assault weapons, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • While floods of images and their competing narratives have all but defined the digital age, this battleground of misinformation has had notable consequences in the region.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of defined
Verb
  • Personalities are sketched only in the margins, mostly via brief snippets of chatter between rounds of gunfire.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Darman sketched out on paper a comparison of all the advantages and disadvantages of continuing to work at the Post while writing books, versus moving to TV.
    — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of sketched

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“Outlined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlined. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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