summed

past tense of sum

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of summed 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed
Verb
  • Bloomberg added or extended more than 40 historic districts and passed more than 80 neighborhood downzonings, while Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams were much more accommodating to real-estate interests.
    David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The Rangers also added Dennis Cholowski and Marc Del Gaizo this past season.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • They are subtracted from growth because GDP is meant to count only domestic production.
    Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • They are subtracted from growth because GDP is only supposed to count domestic production.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • One more month of inflation data – September – must be known before a precise figure for the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits can be calculated and released.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The idea came from James Fishback, who calculated taxpaying households could receive $5,000 based on Musk’s stated goal of saving $2 trillion.
    Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The study also computed the pre-tax and after-tax returns for overlapping 30-year periods and found that the tax drag varied over time.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Other planning engines run scenarios sequentially, in cycles measured in hours, which is why their AI can only report on what has already been computed rather than reasoning live, KetteQ said.
    Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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