sum
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Now, property records show that the sale of the home has officially closed with a final price of $2.2 million—an even lower sum than Hoult paid for the home more than eight years ago.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
In sum, it all sounds less like a good-faith effort to invigorate a vital newsmagazine for modern times—and more like an effort to have it fall apart, piece by piece.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Judge Kathaleen McCormick called the pay-out an "unfathomable sum", and argued Musk had influenced the company's board and shareholders - 75% of which voted to back his pay deal.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
He argued to jurors Monday that a “reasonable sum for this loss is $10 million.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Arithmetic
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The Number System
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