as in added
to combine (numbers) into a single sum
can sum figures in his head faster than I can punch them into a calculator
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Recent Examples of summed
Palmer’s goal from open play, which involved theoretical No 10 Fernandez carrying the ball out wide, full-back Cucurella underlapping him, and Palmer finishing in the box, summed that up.
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Cerys Jones, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
What happened next summed everything up.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
But perhaps comedian Kareem Rahma, creator of the popular interview series SubwayTakes, who was in town to host red carpet coverage, summed it up best.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 11 Jan. 2026
The headline for this review summed it up—this 18-year-old bourbon is better than Pappy Van Winkle 23.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2025
Purdy summed it up pretty well.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025
One particularly brutal sequence summed it up.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
Johnny Rocco summed it up decades before Democrats actually put it into practice.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Cats are notoriously mischievous—but there's a reason so many people have them anyway, and one man summed it up in a viral TikTok video.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Cerys Jones, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
What happened next summed everything up.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
But perhaps comedian Kareem Rahma, creator of the popular interview series SubwayTakes, who was in town to host red carpet coverage, summed it up best.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 11 Jan. 2026
The headline for this review summed it up—this 18-year-old bourbon is better than Pappy Van Winkle 23.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2025
Purdy summed it up pretty well.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025
One particularly brutal sequence summed it up.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
Johnny Rocco summed it up decades before Democrats actually put it into practice.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Cats are notoriously mischievous—but there's a reason so many people have them anyway, and one man summed it up in a viral TikTok video.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summed
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Royal scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Ohio State, and Mobley added 13.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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The social assistance sector added 42,000 and construction added 33,000.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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The second point is when the planet is hidden behind the star, so the light of just the star can be subtracted from the light of the star and planet together, leaving just the light from the planet.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Once the assessed value is established, any qualifying exemptions get subtracted.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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Florida’s current rules cap out-of-state enrollment at 10% of the university population, but that figure is calculated as an average for the state’s 12 public universities.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics last month calculated the investment pledges at $5 trillion from the EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.—
Paul Wiseman,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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How many people on Earth actually understand how wins above replacement are computed?—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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In order to train the model correctly , all the GPUs need to know the average gradient computed across all batches.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Summed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summed. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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