How to Use in its/their totality in a Sentence

in its/their totality

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  • That is part of my goal and part of my role in editing — to take both the macro and the micro view of fairness and to look at the story in its totality.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The airline is offering a special flight from Austin, Texas, to Detroit to see the eclipse in its totality.
    Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Help the team in its totality reach online goals by shouldering the shortcomings of people and promoting the strengths of others.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • So if all goes according to plan, the project’s backers say, the stadium project in its totality would generate enough revenue to pay off the borrowing.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And— all our actions in their totality need to be geared at stabilizing the situation and bringing it into a normal course.
    NBC News, 14 June 2021
  • But the collection’s true value, according to experts, is in its totality.
    Michael Blanding, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Fox has argued that its reporting on the election should be viewed in its totality, pointing out that at least one host, Tucker Carlson, voiced skepticism about Ms. Powell’s statements.
    New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • As for lessons the docuseries in their totality seek to convey, the producer pointed to the fact all three subjects projected misleading images of trustworthiness in their daily lives.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That Keuning, 45, wants his second solo album to be enjoyed in its totality is not surprising.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Having dealt with the Columbus match in its totality earlier this week, it is now focused on the Charlotte visit, which is another vital game with playoff implications.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The eclipse would be observable in its totality within—and only within—a 56-mile band running through Chile and Argentina, with visibility petering out somewhere in the South Atlantic.
    John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2021
  • Having group support is a valuable tool, but so is having your own individual, professional support to navigate all of your feelings — in their totality.
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Although a European space probe, Huygens, parachuted to its surface in 2005, Titan’s magnificent hostility is, in its totality, hard to understand from a hospitable planet like this one.
    New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The company will likely try to narrow the conversation around the competitiveness of its gaming division, but the fact is, Microsoft in its totality regularly competes with Apple in being the most valuable company in the world.
    Vulture, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Taken in its totality, the filing paints a damning portrait of personal irresponsibility by a man who leveraged his last name to finance his vices while willfully ignoring his tax liabilities.
    Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the people below don't necessarily notice them — especially in their totality.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But, funnily enough, that was ultimately my justification for including it—no single moment defines any particular person’s character in its totality, for better and worse, and each of these moments exist in tandem with the moments surrounding them.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021

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