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Meta disclosed $347 billion in total obligations for leases that haven’t kicked in yet, including for Hyperion, as of June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
There are eight fewer hydrogen fueling stations now than in 2023 too — a total of 57, according to the California Energy Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Although the physical ring may measure only a few millimeters, the total effective distance traveled by the light depends on how little energy is lost from the waveguide each time it goes around.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Each individual gluon, including those forming the junction, therefore carries a smaller portion of the proton's total momentum.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
On June 25 the total number of loans in default spiked to 18.68 percent.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Sales at nonstore retailers—which mostly represent online shopping—fell by 2.2%, pulling down the overall totals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In terms of cumulative volume breadth, both “stocks only” totals reached new all-time highs yesterday, so that is a bullish sign.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
No voting method can always ensure that local victories produce local seats, national seat totals accurately reflect overall vote shares, and the size of parliament remains fixed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Chipotle’s chicken burrito with rice, beans, cheese and salsa, plus a side of chips, totals $12.50.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Nvidia initially planned to guarantee all 10 gigawatts of OpenAI’s data-center commitments upfront, which could have totaled around $250 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The music-merch industry totaled around $14 billion in 2024, according to Midia Research, an analytics firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
New jobless claims in the last three weeks totaled 199,000, 198,000 and 189,000 after adjusting for seasonal swings in employment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
She said her base salary over the last several years has remained around $405,000, meaning that the vacation payout totaled roughly $824,000 over two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the final accounting, the parade expenses totaled $13,750—an amount equal to more than $330,000 in today’s dollars—and the bills were paid in full.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
In the capital Havana, power outages totalled more than 30 hours at a time, while in the outlying provinces, it was several days before electricity was restored.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Hull, who hit 13 of 14 fairways last Friday, totalled 63 putts in the first two rounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The deficit during the first six months of this fiscal year totalled $1.2 trillion, which is $139 billion less than the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Meta was quick to note that compensatory damages in the Los Angeles case totalled just $3 million, with a further $3 million in punitive damages awarded by the jury Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
When the bill at last came in, it totalled £250,000.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
Pickett, who wore No. 3 last season, was named a freshman All-American after totaling three interceptions and 37 tackles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Harbor International Core Fund Fund’s institutional shares have annual expenses totaling 0.85% of assets under management, which means $85 in annual fees for a $10,000 investment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Amazon added it remained committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 under The Climate Pledge, and had enabled 40 carbon-free energy projects totaling nearly 10 gigawatts in Texas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
SharkNinja said it submitted refund claims totaling about $247.1 million through U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Because their system of counting was based on the number 20, the Mayans naturally divided their year into 18 months of 20 days each, totaling 360 days.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
They were also ordered to pay victim surcharges totalling £2,960, and costs of £17,250.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Swiss pharmaceutical group Sandoz on Monday announced two amicable settlements in the United States, totalling $478.5 million, to resolve a long-running dispute related to generic drug pricing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
In mid-May, after a series of surprise inspections, authorities confiscated counterfeit goods from the markets and issued fines totalling more than $19,000.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Pricerunner had requested damages totalling 64 billion kronor and an additional 14 billion kronor in interest.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"There are fifty packets of hundred-dollar bills, totalling a million dollars," Robert said.
From Lease to Doomsday by Virgil Finlay
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