summed

past tense of sum

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of summed The late Bill Carr, a former Florida athletic director who was Houston’s AD when the SWC breakup began, once summed this up to me in a way that still sticks. Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 1 July 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 Analysts at Deutsche Bank summed it up nicely in a June 11 note to clients. Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 June 2026 Higgo summed it up in a way many of us can relate to in all walks of life. Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026 Hence people’s utilities cannot be summed in a meaningful way. George G. Szpiro, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026 Jones might have summed it up best. ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026 Chloé Farand summed it up for the Guardian, noting the researchers’ projection of 500,000 additional annual deaths due to inactivity by 2050. Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 The sequences after the game summed it up, from the embrace with Erik Spoelstra, being showered courtside by teammates, the moments with Micky Arison and Nick Arison on the opposite end of the sideline, and then the interaction with Pat Riley in the hallway leading to the locker room. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed
Verb
  • The law also added a requirement that heavy water users (over 100,000 gallons a day) must use reclaimed water, or water that has been used and cleaned, to offset their use of fresh, drinkable water.
    Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The ministry added that the fire has since been extinguished.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Also, if a player in the top-10 rounds does not sign, his pick’s value is subtracted from the team’s bonus pool total.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
  • Attorney’s fees will also need to be subtracted from the settlement fund prior to payments being made.
    Tiago Ventura, Time, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • In 2018, Picard and his colleagues released the mitochondrial health index — a molecular measure of mitochondria’s capacity to transform energy, calculated by extracting the organelles from a tissue sample and quantifying their contents.
    Rachel Nuwer, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2026
  • Then, building from this methodology, the top 30% (on average) of general acute care hospitals in each state were calculated.
    Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • The researchers computed the optimal launch angles and wing size.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 9 July 2026
  • The approach uses the aspherical electron densities computed using quantum mechanics to arrive at accurate determinations of atomic positions.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026

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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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