totality
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“But I think it would be unfair to him, without having the totality of all the information, to put any sort of timeline on it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The moon will be near its closest point to earth, resulting in unusually long periods of totality over North Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
But cloud coverage meant that he did not experience totality, he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The artifact was based on the possibility of reviewing every morning, from beginning to end, the totality of knowledge acquired during one's life.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Essentially, we need to understand that mass immunity is not a matter of totalities; rather, it is a continuum that stretches from "can't ever be infected" to "won't be hospitalized or will die if infected."
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2020
The longest totalities provide about six minutes of being in the complete shadow of the moon.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2017
The paranoid outlook can be internally logical, never trivializing, and capable of explaining any or all observed phenomena as aspects of larger, symmetrical totalities.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
But in the history of the world, the individuals we have to do with are peoples, totalities that are States.