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Recent Examples of totality For the first time in almost three decades, millions of skywatchers across Europe were treated to a solar eclipse, with parts of northern Spain experiencing its full path of totality. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026 The path of totality will cross southern Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, according to the National Solar Observatory. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 At its greatest point, totality will last an extraordinary 6 minutes and 23 seconds — more than twice as long as many other total solar eclipses. Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Iceland hadn’t seen a total solar eclipse since 1954, and despite an imperfect forecast, 1 minute and 47 seconds of totality delivered an unforgettable experience. Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for totality
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Noun
  • In 2025, the company flew a total of 170 times (165 by Falcon 9 and five by Starship).
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The new totals come some three months since the outbreak was declared on May 15.
    CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Then on August 10, a large container ship paid a staggering $4 million to fast-track its trip — leaving others, either unwilling or unable to shell out that kind of sum, in maritime limbo.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The acquisition looks small next to the enormous sums being spent on frontier AI models, data centers and chips.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Each study captures only a sliver of the whole, which may be larger yet.
    Vishal R. Patel, Time, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Later versions supported natural language-style searches and gave users the sense that the web could finally be approached as an indexable whole, even if the results were still rough around the edges.
    Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Totality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totality. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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