as in totals
a complete amount of something
the totality of the stars in the universe can only be loosely guessed at
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Recent Examples of totalities
Only Spain misses out on the centerline, but long totalities are still possible there — up to 4 minutes, 40 seconds.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
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Yet after three straight seasons with identical point totals, 41 apiece, Strome had played in just over half the team’s games this year between injuries, illness and healthy scratches peppered into that mix of maladies.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
7 Mar. 2026
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By game’s end, both had impressive totals.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
7 Mar. 2026
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The right brain sees in wholes (the gestalt), whereas the left brain loves systems.—
Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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His work at Bottega was characterized by a sophisticated understanding of craft and its capacity to hold apparently contradictory ideas in surprisingly human wholes.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
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Massive billionaire funding in the race from artificial intelligence interests operated largely outside public awareness, with super PACs spending enormous sums while deliberately avoiding transparency about their true policy priorities, particularly regarding AI regulation[1].—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Middle East has become a playground for American financiers, who are salivating at the chance of tapping huge sums of money and shaping the region’s financial markets in their own image.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Roethling recommends adding soil aggregates the size of a pea to aid in drainage.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
26 Feb. 2026
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Depending on the solvent, TISQ spontaneously organizes into nanoparticle-like J-type or nanofiber-like H-type aggregates, each with different electronic behaviors.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Totalities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalities. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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