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Recent Examples of summation In summation, Minnesota dropped two rounds in the 2026 draft and one round in the ’27 draft in exchange for the homegrown, 35-year-old receiver. Alec Lewis, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 The record is indeed best described by that all-encompassing word, experimental, but here Dijon occupies a space closer to traditional R&B, concluding the sonic excursion of the preceding half-hour with a thematic summation. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025 The summation over time of all NEAT movements can add up to expending quite a few additional calories throughout the day, especially compared with someone who plants themselves in a chair or on a couch and rarely moves a muscle. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025 In the second hour of Slavik’s summation, Diddy started to take on a noticeably more downcast appearance. Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for summation
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Noun
  • Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except the student athletes.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The sum that borrowers need to repay depends on several factors, including how expensive the colleges are, and whether borrowers had enough savings to pay tuition up front.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That’s after revisions to prior months cut growth totals sharply and even showed a net loss of jobs in June.
    Danny Bakst, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Later in the quarter, Houston added to his team-high sack total in a split sack with Kenny Clark.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The exposure was going to change wildly in the course of the eclipse, and totality would last only a few minutes.
    Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Given the totality of the investigative findings, Jackson encourages his counterparts across the country to look at their unsolved homicides and compare this case to theirs, as there may be more victims out there.
    Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On the whole, though, authorities by this point had gained a fairly comprehensive picture of the Manchester saga.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement The most valuable work will come from your ability to conduct a multi-agent, multi-model workflow, synthesizing the outputs of specialized tools into a cohesive and superior whole.
    Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Summation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summation. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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