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Recent Examples of summation One way to consider this is that while the percentage growth in prices was higher decades ago, there is a history, as the growing CPI is effectively a summation of all previous price hikes. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 13 May 2026 Gretchen realized that Blue Antiquity was Oscar’s capstone novel, a summation of what my husband believed about life, love, death, and eternity. Literary Hub, 12 May 2026 Trump is not totally wrong in his summation, but the remedy is bad as redistricting changes are supposed to occur once every 10 years based on population changes. Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026 The final image of The Custom House may be a summation of King’s views on the cost of artistic creation. Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for summation
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Noun
  • Another newspaper calculated the sum to be roughly 3,000 pounds, or something near a half-million dollars today.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is sharing the hefty sum Taylor Swift paid the city for her Madison Square Garden wedding to Travis Kelce earlier this month.
    Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • Rainfall totals could climb into the double-digits in areas hit repeatedly Wednesday since rain began there earlier this week.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • Collins has not yet reported his latest fundraising totals for the quarter.
    Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • Bilbao Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay at the northern edge of the path, gets a short totality, but has a spectacular elevated spot to watch the eclipse close to the center.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 5 July 2026
  • On August 12, 2026, totality will be visible from remote northern Russia, eastern Greenland, western Iceland, northern Spain and the very northwestern tip of Portugal.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps more than any other tech companies out there today, Amazon and SpaceX are both conglomerates with broad collections of assets and businesses that each believe work together to create a more powerful whole.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • Ongoing expenses, including server costs, residual obligations, and, yes, licensing considerations, made the whole of Hollywood history harder to manage and, by extension, it was seen as less marketable to some.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026

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“Summation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summation. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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