as in total
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 totality
Paradoxically, his quest for totality entailed a diminishment—of size, of scale, of material.
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Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Shooting with a filter also requires its manual removal during totality — or, when the sun is completely hidden by the moon — meaning a hand must enter the frame and interrupt the shot.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
Over the storm’s totality, from Feb. 15 to Feb. 19, a measuring site four miles southwest of where the avalanche occurred measured more than nine feet of new snow.
—Andrew Graham
april 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2026
There had previously been extensive efforts in some developer communities to reverse-engineer Claude Code, with some success, but not with this totality.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Shooting with a filter also requires its manual removal during totality — or, when the sun is completely hidden by the moon — meaning a hand must enter the frame and interrupt the shot.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
Over the storm’s totality, from Feb. 15 to Feb. 19, a measuring site four miles southwest of where the avalanche occurred measured more than nine feet of new snow.
—Andrew Graham
april 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2026
There had previously been extensive efforts in some developer communities to reverse-engineer Claude Code, with some success, but not with this totality.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for totality
Noun
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Morgan Stanley analyst Shawn Kim in a report on Monday raised his estimate for the CPU total addressable market by 25% by 2030.—
Tobias Burns,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
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The season features seven songs in total, four of them originals developed with the show’s music team and songwriter Amy Allen, who has written hits for Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Harry Styles, among many others.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
12 May 2026
Noun
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The trial, of course, is centered on whether OpenAI abandoned its charitable founding mission as its for-profit arm fundraised record sums from Microsoft and others and its parent company restructured into a public-benefit corporation.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
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Now the company seeks to expand on last year’s win by spending vast sums — putting up more than $70 million so far — on a California ballot measure campaign to cap attorney fees in car crash cases.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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So much that was hidden now completes the whole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
18 May 2026
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“Totality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totality. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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