in toto
Example Sentences
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To put this in perspective, that $145 billion is more than any other country except what China spends on defense in toto and constitutes approximately half of China's full military budget.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2023
But the association is not opposing the reporting requirements in toto, said Ms. Smith.
From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2021
McConnell’s answer, in toto: “Well, I think Senator Blunt knows more about that than anyone else. Roy, do you want to take another shot at that?”
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020
Afraid of prosecution for obscenity, Faber & Faber passed on “Ulysses,” but it published individual sections of Joyce’s “Work in Progress,” and then issued it in toto as “Finnegans Wake,” in 1939.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2019
It underpinned the more difficult “quadrivium”—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy— that students went on to learn; all seven subjects taken in toto being the so-called liberal arts.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
