Overviewing

Factual Questions
1

Flipping through an industry journal this morning, I chanced upon an article that began:

“Recent discoveries in the [sub]blah-blah, woof, woof…[/sub]. The following summary overviews these developments.”

This, I believe, is my first encounter with the verb form of overview. Is this legit usage? Can I overview stuff?

2

It’s in Websters as “a general survey” but, like you, it’s not part of my standard lexicon.

3

That didn’t answer your question, did it?

Websters does list it as a noun.