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[toht-l] / ˈtoʊt l /






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Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

The country's entire electricity grid suffered "total disconnection" that triggered a nationwide outage, Cuba's energy ministry said.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

By the time the game kicks off, however, the Rebels’ total war on Kiffin, the man who led them for six seasons, will have been raging for months.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, their total market capitalizations range from around $55 billion for Marubeni to about $115 billion for Mitsubishi, according to FactSet.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

The following morning, the radiation levels at the plant dropped sufficiently for reinforcements to join the Fukushima 50, bringing the total number of workers on-site to 580.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

CPL shared the post on Instagram, where other patrons began volunteering their totals in the comments — a spontaneous little leaderboard for people whose competitive edge expresses itself through returning DVDs on time.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Garreaud said precipitation totals reached levels "rarely seen in the otherwise extremely arid region."

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

The Middle East oil companies are also moving more oil to the Red Sea through pipelines, further expanding their export totals.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

According to the Met Office, there is also a small chance of considerably higher totals, particularly over east-facing higher ground, where more than 75mm could fall within 12 hours.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars, which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

On some of those days, new lows have totaled well over 300 issues.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

The watchdog's report also notes that equipment losses have totaled $3.7bn, with other $7.4bn in other expenditures.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled just under 1.78 million in the week through Aug. 15, falling by 18,000 from the downwardly revised total a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

In 2025, Meta’s revenue totaled roughly $200 billion and its net profit was roughly $60 billion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

"Your car is totaled and I need you to sign this release so the insurance company can pay me."

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

An undercover reporter recorded two senior Reform aides apparently suggesting a way around electoral law to secure foreign party donations, one of which would have totalled £500,000.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

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

Sooryavanshi's individual prize money totalled more than £30,000.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

In contrast, Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries by air totalled 1.5 million in March, up 4.9% on-year.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

They totalled £117, of which Benjamin had paid £50.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

UC’s fall 2025 enrollment records list 0.3% of students as transgender men, 0.2% as transgender women and 1.7% as nonbinary, totaling about 2.2% of students.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

His state financial disclosure for 2001 listed assets totaling no more than $170,000, a ProPublica and Tribune analysis found.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

“He ingratiated himself knowing that one day, he could use that information to defraud clients of thousands of dollars, eventually totaling in the millions,” Savery said Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

The company expects to receive refunds totaling $247.1 million, which it’s using to offset higher costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Treatment of agricultural lands with herbicides doubled in the decade following 1949, totaling 53 million acres in 1959.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Willian joined Chelsea from Anzhi Makhachkala in 2013, with the investigation finding that transfer fee payments totalling £19.2m were made to two unregistered entities in connection with his move and that of Samuel Eto'o.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

More than 60% — totalling an estimated 3,633 homeless people — live within a mile of downtown venues and face possible expulsion, the report said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Before the war, trade between Kuwait and Iran was robust, totalling roughly $300 million in 2024, according to Kuwaiti media citing the two countries' joint chamber of commerce.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

The UAE is also Iran's third largest export destination, making up 12 percent of its exports, totalling more than $7 billion.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

During the morning his work went slowly, for he kept pausing, sometimes in the midst of totalling a column of figures, to grasp at some mocking half-memory of that dream.

From The Rotifers by Robert Abernathy




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