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by xt00 500 days ago
"will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources"

Synthesize? Seems like the wrong word -- I think they would want to say something like, "analyze, and synthesize useful outputs from hundreds of online sources"..

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From New Oxford dictionary:

  > combine (a number of things) into a coherent whole: pupils should synthesize the data they have gathered | Darwinian theory has been synthesized with modern genetics.
On the other hand, accurate if it is prone for hallucination…
You can synthesize the parts to get the whole. Both uses are correct AFAIK