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Recent Examples of sum
Noun
The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsidize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025 Maddie, who fled her home as a teenager after stealing a five-figure sum from her parents, is now sober and raising Caroline alone. Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Still, according to the investigative media outlet Mongabay, Petroperú has accumulated nearly $100 million in penalties for environmental damage across the country — sums the highly indebted state-company is not likely to be able to pay in the foreseeable future. Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025 Dobbins’ impact for the Broncos can be measured in several ways, but one stat maybe sums it up as well as any. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sum
Noun
  • Anthony Orion Dalton, 17, was sentenced on October 8 to a total of 9 years in prison, with 4 years suspended, after he was found in possession of a firearm on campus in April, according to an October 9 press release from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • What To Know The Board of Elections shared that a total of 79,409 New Yorkers cast their ballots on the first day of early voting on Saturday, with particularly high voting numbers in the boroughs that Mamdani won in the primary election held on June 24.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Chegg also sued Google in February, arguing that AI summaries of search results have hurt its traffic and sales.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.
    Real-Time News team, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Barcelona used a mix of zonal and man-marking but struggled when teams exploited their comparalative lack of height and physicality by using players in motion.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These ones have a lug sole that offers extra height and more room for cushioned support.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To conserve, after all, is the essence of conservatism.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • This is the essence of creator economy.
    Astha Bhardwaj, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This week, the dramatic collapse of plans for Barcelona to play a La Liga game against Villarreal in Miami — first reported by The Athletic — added extra spice to the compelling and captivating Clasico.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, the inflation data likely add fuel to expectations that the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point at its policy meeting later this month - its second consecutive cut.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With that in mind, here are a few specific spots in both countries that are on our list for maximum totality time and proximity to adventure.
    Maya Silver, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In Nacua’s absence, quarterback Matthew Stafford showcased the totality of weapons in the offense.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The last American to compete in the pinnacle of motorsport was Logan Sargeant, who raced for Williams for nearly two years before the team replaced him.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, management guru Simon Sinek said all successful people have hit rock bottom before reaching their pinnacle.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Evolito itself traces its roots to YASA’s early axial flux technology.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Little Tokyo often steals the spotlight, but Gardena and Torrance’s Japanese American roots run just as deep.
    Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Sum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sum. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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