as in total
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
That lasted a grand total of 48 hours, as the Dodgers will exit the first half of this stretch of six games in 10 days against the Padres with at least half of a hold on the NL West.
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Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
The grand total ultimately tallied up to $43 million, Baird said.
—Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
Its domestic grand total currently sits at $170 million and could reach as high as $198 million by the end of the weekend.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 2 Aug. 2025
That's a grand total of $1.5 billion injected into the Texas moving picture industry.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
The grand total ultimately tallied up to $43 million, Baird said.
—Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
Its domestic grand total currently sits at $170 million and could reach as high as $198 million by the end of the weekend.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 2 Aug. 2025
That's a grand total of $1.5 billion injected into the Texas moving picture industry.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grand total
Noun
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New Mexico’s defense has given up an average of 419 yards per game in 2025, a total of 95 yards more than the 324 UCLA’s offense has averaged.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Cultural, Artistic and Musical Programming Advisory Council received a total of 48 applications from qualified groups for the 2026 budget cycle, according to the three-year awards report.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg has invested large sums of money into Meta.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
6 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, North America will miss live views of the eclipse due to not being in the path of totality.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Even in the Midwest, totality takes place close to the moonset, with only those west of Kansas seeing totality higher in the sky.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The report did not provide details on when, where and how funds were spent, only sum totals for each district.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The two used threatening notes to rob a Bank of America and an East West Bank in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2022, netting a sum total of $2,600.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To apply with your hands, dispense two dropper fulls, rub the palms of your hands together, and then evenly rub into your face and neck—just don’t forget to wash your hands when you’re done.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
2 June 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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