summed

past tense of sum

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of summed 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 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
  • And given that, and the high state and municipal taxes many households and businesses face, Fazio added, Connecticut should tighten retirement benefits again before extending them next summer.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Both memes are so prevalent that they were recently added as entries on Know Your Meme, which also hosts a separate entry for Pattinson himself, given his history of going viral.
    David Mack, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When those other detections are subtracted from the total count, the geoneutrino signal from the mantle should be all that’s left.
    James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But New Delhi-Beijing tensions have subtracted rather than multiplied the economic gains.
    Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Verb
  • As Zucman calculated in 2025, the share of total American household wealth that modern American oligarchs owned was now more than double the size of the wealth owned by the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and others combined.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Neither of us are big fans of over aging these delicate white wines in new oak barrels, but a careful and calculated use of oak can offer a nice wood frame to highlight the art in the glass.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • The new map is computed using the IQP eclipse computational method that accounts for an improved value for the eclipse solar radius as well as the exact shape of the moon and topography.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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