sum total

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I give her a one-page spreadsheet listing where all our money is, the balances and how the sum total compares with previous years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

Europe is a sum total of different countries with different-sized budgets and diverse domestic politics and priorities.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

But not really much, ultimately about as much as the sum total of the unscripted “not a joke,” “not hyperbole,” and “I mean that literally” asides scattered throughout.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024

In other words, the sum total of that company’s annual contracts adds up to the equivalent of the entire U.S. budget for diplomacy.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2024

The sum total of these chains makes a web in which every work of art occupies its own specific place.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson