summation

Example Sentences

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With all that said, a bonfire composed of burning laptops is a good summation of 2026’s current flavor of anxiety.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026

"I was sort of there, hovering," is his summation of his involvement.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

It is the summation of the ethnographic fieldwork, bold hypotheses and sweeping synthesis unique to this scholar of rural resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

But “One Battle After Another” doesn’t feel like a summation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

Or again the harm may be done by two or more different carcinogens acting together, so that there is a summation of their effects.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson