How to Use the sum total in a Sentence
the sum total
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And there, two minutes in, with 42 left to go, end the sum total of the album’s sunny moments.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
26 Oct. 2025
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Again, the visual clichés blunt the impact of both of these cruel fates, but the sum total of time spent with the Friedken brothers brings the core home.
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Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Today there are literally more Starlink satellites up there than the sum total of all other operational satellites.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Similarly, Oliver could have coasted on the sum total of kind eyes and unflappable swagger, but Gallner lends him a potent romantic streak.
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Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization.
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Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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Eventually, the sum total of indexes constitutes a dictionary, in which each entry isn’t a word but a short sequence of DNA base pairs.
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Dmitri Pavlichin,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Aug. 2018
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If humans have zero intrinsic value, and corporations derive value only from human spending, then the sum total of economic value is also zero.
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Andrew Behar,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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That's the conclusion of Merriam-Webster, which chose its Word of the Year after reviewing 2025’s crush of content and deciding that particular word described the sum total of what has been shoveled into our literary consciousness over the past 12 months.
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Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
20 Dec. 2025
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