as in total
a complete amount of something
in this case the sum total of physical evidence that a crime has been committed wouldn't fill a thimble
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Recent Examples of sum total
Despite the greater sum total of wealth of pre-modern China, and so the greater surplus which the rentier elites could tax or steal, most of that wealth vis-a-vis Mongolia or Central Asia was realized in the form of people.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
That means its stock is valued at a sharp discount to the sum total of Credit Suisse’s hard recoverable assets that can be liquidated to cover debt in the event of collapse — usually a sign of extreme distress.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
Last weekend, the sum total of all movies grossed a bleak of $38 million in the U.S. and Canada in three days, nearly a low for the year.
—Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
What has received far less discussion than the outrageousness of her daily utterances is what the sum total of them portends for America under a Republican majority with Greene in the vanguard.
—Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
That means its stock is valued at a sharp discount to the sum total of Credit Suisse’s hard recoverable assets that can be liquidated to cover debt in the event of collapse — usually a sign of extreme distress.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
Last weekend, the sum total of all movies grossed a bleak of $38 million in the U.S. and Canada in three days, nearly a low for the year.
—Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
What has received far less discussion than the outrageousness of her daily utterances is what the sum total of them portends for America under a Republican majority with Greene in the vanguard.
—Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sum total
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Debuting in September 2010, Blue Bloods ran for 15 seasons, producing 293 episodes in total.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Last month, Brannan, who chairs the Council’s Finance Committee, said his comptroller campaign was expecting to get its first public matching funds payout Tuesday for a total of more than $1.5 million.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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The United States spent exorbitant sums to defeat Nazism, rebuild Europe and defend the continent against the Soviet Union.—
German Lopez,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The emails appeared to show Musk acknowledging the need for the company to make large sums of money to fund the computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions, which stood in contrast to the claims in his lawsuit that OpenAI was wrongly pursuing profit.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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On the contrary, the credit rating agencies and bond investors understood that the city structures individual debt financings and refinancings to achieve optimal results for taxpayers in totality.—
Pat Dowell,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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Each franchise is different in the totality of their worth.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Porter Jr, who has had three back surgeries, routinely missed huge chunks of his early seasons, including his entire rookie year, but has missed a grand total of four games over last season and this one, signaling a significant turn of events.—
Morten Stig Jensen,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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One weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces, another weighed 6 pounds 8 ounces, and the biggest weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces — for a grand total of 19 pounds, 4 ounces.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
12 Feb. 2025
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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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Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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As indicated above, a peace deal may well only postpone Russia’s efforts to absorb the whole of Ukraine.—
The Editors,
National Review,
14 Feb. 2025
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