grand total

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Recent Examples of grand total The prolific songwriter has been nominated a grand total of 16 times and in ten of the last eleven years. Vulture Staff, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025 In Tuesday's update, DOGE's new grand total is $65 billion saved. Stephen Fowler, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025 The legendary director, writer and artist was nominated four times and won a grand total of zero competitive Oscars. Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025 Mello stopped a grand total of 5 penalty kicks in the state semifinals and final. Robert Clark, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grand total
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Noun
  • Selected as an astronaut in 2013, McClain has spent a prior total of 13 hours and 8 minutes conducting two spacewalks – both occurring on her first 204-day spaceflight between 2018 and 2019.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • What to know In a safety notice submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on April 24, GM disclosed that the recall affects a total of 597,630 vehicles.
    Tahar Rajab, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The following summer, Spurs paid sizeable sums for Richarlison and Yves Bissouma and completed the deal to sign Cristian Romero after a season-long loan.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • However, each nation also ensures that the wealthiest pay a larger sum, ensuring better income equality.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The remarkable images — taken from Quebec, Canada, during the March 29, 2025, partial solar eclipse — reveal the sun's outer atmosphere — a feature typically visible only during the brief moments of totality during a total solar eclipse.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • For endurance specifically, looking at the totality of evidence, Jones figures there’s a real effect.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • While wind energy projects have faced fierce opposition in several counties — anti-wind advocates often rely on misinformation to argue that turbines harm wildlife and threaten human health — the industry is popular on the whole.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The announcement of a ceasefire by various actors in the country is a sign of hope for the whole of Myanmar.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All sizes will be available, including twins from $99, fulls ($149), queens ($199) and kings ($299).
    Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2020
  • 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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