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a complete amount of something
The grand total of the proceeds from the fund-raiser was over $100,000.
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Recent Examples of grand total
Zoom in: More than 3 million Ohioans are in that grand total, also a new record.
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Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
Why Gnats Are Attracted to Our Plants and Home
Fungus gnats live and die quickly, with a life cycle reaching up to a grand total of about three weeks.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
The grand total for the past three fiscal years is 47 audit committee meetings.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
Georgia’s hopes for another SEC championship and a bye in the first round of the College Football Playoffs now hinged on Stockton, who had thrown a grand total of 16 passes all season entering Saturday’s game.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
Why Gnats Are Attracted to Our Plants and Home
Fungus gnats live and die quickly, with a life cycle reaching up to a grand total of about three weeks.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
The grand total for the past three fiscal years is 47 audit committee meetings.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
Georgia’s hopes for another SEC championship and a bye in the first round of the College Football Playoffs now hinged on Stockton, who had thrown a grand total of 16 passes all season entering Saturday’s game.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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The increase in holiday spending coincided with an initial bout of relief for borrowers, as the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a total of one percentage point over the final few months of the year.Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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Pritchard and Sam Hauser missed a total of three games between them across the regular season and postseason combined.Jay King, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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In January 2022, Wardle sold Wordle to The New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, though the game remained free to play.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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But Netflix and other streaming services have been paying out hefty, sometimes record-setting sums to air live sporting events as the company seeks to earn more revenue from commercials and draw more viewers.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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Millions of Americans, from southern Texas to northern Maine were in the path of totality where the moon completely blots out the sun.Visual Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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On that day, a path of totality will travel through eastern Greenland, western Iceland and across northern Spain.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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This offering is even more sprawling than just a castle, however, and includes many outbuildings for its sum total asking less than $1.1 million ($1,057,207 to be exact).Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 28 Sep. 2024
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Apple’s portfolio picked up a sum total of zero Macs in the critical last three months.Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023
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Mansour’s iconic 1973 painting The Camel of Hardship depicts an elderly Palestinian man carrying the whole of Jerusalem on his back.Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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There were also Russian advances in the direction of Pokrovsk, the logistics hub whose capture would give Moscow a boost in its goal to control the whole of the Donetsk region.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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All sizes will be available, including twins from $99, fulls ($149), queens ($199) and kings ($299).Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2020
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When in their feeding grounds, a gray whale typically eats about 1.3 tons of food — mouth-fulls of crustaceans, worms, shrimp and small, schooling fish — per day, according to researchers.Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
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“Grand total.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grand%20total. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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