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
March 2025 marked the brand’s best month compared to the totality of 2024.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025
The Fed is going to wait and see how the totality of Trump’s policies impact the economy before adjusting interest rates.
—Rohit Arora, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
In totality, there’s very little that’s been typical about the past five months in Lawrence, the home of a program that for two decades resembled Dr. Jekyll but this year decided to split custody with Mr. Hyde.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
Mario Tama / Getty Images Many in the U.S. outside of the path of totality saw a partial solar eclipse, when the moon covers part of the sun.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025
The Fed is going to wait and see how the totality of Trump’s policies impact the economy before adjusting interest rates.
—Rohit Arora, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
In totality, there’s very little that’s been typical about the past five months in Lawrence, the home of a program that for two decades resembled Dr. Jekyll but this year decided to split custody with Mr. Hyde.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
Mario Tama / Getty Images Many in the U.S. outside of the path of totality saw a partial solar eclipse, when the moon covers part of the sun.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for totality
Noun
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The April count was revised lower by 30,000, while March's total came down by 65,000 to 120,000.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
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Putting it into grim context, 2024’s total of 80,391 fatalities are still above pre-pandemic levels.—
Jackie Siegel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Of that sum, vinyl purchases comprise 4,000 – a personal best sales week for Jonas as a soloist on vinyl.—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
5 June 2025
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The sum was, at the time, a record for a rights issue by a European company and followed the U.K. bank's calamitous acquisition, the previous autumn, of the Dutch lender ABN AMRO.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
4 June 2025
Noun
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In Huang’s view, the export controls not only hurt Nvidia, but the whole of the U.S.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
28 May 2025
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The whole of his training, his instructor tells him, will take place in a simulator.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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“Totality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totality. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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