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Recent Examples of summation For the documentary, Springsteen offered the most laudatory summation of Jeffreys’ talents. Jim Farber, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025 Ever the wry observer of modern life, Didion could fashion arch vignettes out of therapy summations. Evelyn McDonnell 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025 In summation, the stakes remain pretty high for the wider energy market and that of both nations, but Pakistan appears to be in a particularly vulnerable position. Follow me on Twitter. Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 Reckoning is that the nearly three-hour film is overly plot-heavy due to striving to feel like a summation of the eight-film franchise — most of which felt like stand-alone stories until Dead Reckoning (which was originally titled Dead Reckoning Part One) and The Final Reckoning. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for summation
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Noun
  • In arithmetic progressions, there are many groups of numbers that have the same sum.
    Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
  • Their professions range from sales representatives to community coaches, and Auckland’s winnings of roughly €4 million ($4.5 million) from the Club World Cup—peanuts to elite clubs—is a fortune for an entity and federation not used to dealing in such sums.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • If the state approves the expansion, East Windsor would end up with a total of more than 1,100 acres consumed for solar energy.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • Under the agreement, Home Depot's subsidiary SRS Distribution will buy all of GMS' stock for $110 per share for a total of $4.3 billion.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • This region has an excellent chance of clear skies for a totality of 1 minute, 35 seconds.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 4 July 2025
  • But the real star of the show for Dunhill was the totality of their SS26 collection, with each piece being both wearable and so well situated into the overall thematics of this show.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • What is home for Superman, the world’s most famous immigrant: Krypton, the United States, the whole of planet Earth?
    Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
  • Return to the show for its two high points: Queen somehow condensed the whole of its grandeur into 21 unforgettable minutes.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025

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