summed

past tense of sum

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of summed Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer and an advisor at Collective[i], summed it up in a single line. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Kaia Wilson once summed it up perfectly with the wise words of Stevie Nicks. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026 Fox praised the clean space and cold beer, while Wolski summed it up best with a laugh. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2026 As for keeping the focus on the main thing this week, the Ole Miss coach summed it up in the most logical way for his players that could be sucked into the off-field distractions this week. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 All this data was normalized and summed to calculate a score out of 100 for each destination. — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2026 Allocations for years 1 through 5 were summed, representing 2021 through 2025. — Aneri Pattani — Kff Health News, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026 Perhaps Wrexham chief executive Michael Williamson summed things up best shortly before ringing the Nasdaq bell in Times Square to launch both the day’s trading on the world’s second biggest stock exchange and the club’s new home shirt. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Because colonization can precede infection, one patient may count as both a screening case and, later, a clinical case, so the two totals overlap and cannot be summed. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed
Verb
  • The rooms Most of the 297 rooms and suites occupy a 30-storey tower added in the ’90s, where champagne tones, glossy dark woods, and silk accents meet impeccable detail.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Elina Aarnisalo added 14 points for the Bruins (2-0), Timea Gardiner had 12 points and KK Bransford had 10 points.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Those and taxes are not subtracted out of gross measurements of economic activity.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Normally, list prices are higher than net prices, since discounts are subtracted.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The authors calculated that for every 114 newborns who do not receive a vitamin K shot ⁠at birth, one ​additional bleeding event would occur.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Matthias Schweighöfer has this precision and control that makes the German production feel sharp and calculated.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The amount of his withdrawal is computed using the year specified in the Single Life Expectancy Table using the age of the beneficiary the year following the death of the IRA owner.
    — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Since rates are computed by dividing the number of cases by the population at risk in a specified time period, then by definition, if the number of cases stays the same but the size of the denominator shrinks, the rates will be higher.
    — Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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