sum total

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 This offering is even more sprawling than just a castle, however, and includes many outbuildings for its sum total asking less than $1.1 million ($1,057,207 to be exact). Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 28 Sep. 2024 Apple’s portfolio picked up a sum total of zero Macs in the critical last three months. Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for sum total
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Noun
  • Raleigh is this summer's cheapest destination for a total of $1,036, followed closely by Jacksonville, Florida, at $1,044.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 13 May 2025
  • Additionally, Queen Bey has now played more shows at SoFi Stadium than any other artist in the venue’s history, with a total of eight, counting 2023’s RENAISSANCE tour.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 13 May 2025
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  • Families outside Libya are blackmailed with cellphone videos of their relatives being tortured to pay varying sums for their release — payments that often offer no real guarantee of freedom.
    Renata Brito, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Of that sum, 77,000 units are via traditional album sales.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Mario Tama / Getty Images Many in the U.S. outside of the path of totality saw a partial solar eclipse, when the moon covers part of the sun.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • This eclipse will have no period of darkness, known as totality.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • As Rojas and Barnes came up, the only player left on the team’s bench was Chris Taylor, another right-handed hitter who has taken a grand total of 20 at-bats all season.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
  • Jalen Pickett late this season as a potentially viable – and in contrast to Westbrook’s volatility, steadier and more stabilizing – point guard option, albeit one with a grand total of 11 minutes of NBA playoff experience.
    Joel Rush, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Peter Senge describes systems thinking as the ability to view an organization as a dynamic and interconnected whole.
    Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Road trips for me had always been about making a whole of the places that lay between two points, of filling in the gaps.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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“Sum total.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sum%20total. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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