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 show in its totality is a love letter to the big, old-fashioned Broadway musical.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The singer’s 13-minute acceptance speech can be viewed in its totality on YouTube.
    EW.com, 1 July 2024
  • Indeed, when viewed in its totality, no pill or medicine provides as many ancillary benefits as does nature.
    Bill Frist, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But the collection’s true value, according to experts, is in its totality.
    Michael Blanding, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The full moon will technically rise in its totality early Friday.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nashville didn't experience the solar eclipse in its totality, but another celestial event is set to happen in just a few days.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 17 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The center will also be displaying the eclipse in its totality indoors via a NASA live stream.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 30 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Living in a region that experiences all four seasons in their totality, ten Have and her interiors are in sync with the unique moods and bounties of winter, spring, summer, and fall.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Housed on a top-secret mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But the people below don't necessarily notice them — especially in their totality.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In Milwaukee, the moon will cover almost 90%, yet those who have seen prior eclipses say the allure of the sight in its totality is literally the difference between night and day.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The rebrands are meant to help Marvel disabuse audiences from the pervasive impression that its content is one unified narrative experience that must be consumed in its totality.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • 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
  • And though there will indeed be thousands of travelers who will be chasing the celestial event, which is the last one visible in its totality in North America for another 20 years, there are those of us who will have to watch from home.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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