totality

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Connor: In assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s use of force, one must consider the totality of circumstances.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

Witness accounts, background information about Ross and Good and details about what else was going on that morning will help them examine what Piehota called the "totality" of the circumstances.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

The exhausting, invigorating totality of the thing sets its own tone.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The central bank says its decisions are guided by the totality of the data, but when asked which data are shaping policy or how heavily each source is weighted, officials have been light on detail.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus that ‘The world is the totality of facts, not of things.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton