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During the bye week, he and McDaniel watched video for a total of four hours together over two days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
When a bite occurs, fragile health systems, long travel distances to regional facilities and the high cost or total absence of effective antivenom mean a treatable medical emergency can quickly become fatal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Regulators were empowered to reduce prices at each hospital as necessary to bring total revenue to allocated levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
BBC News has calculated they total up to £2.8m for basic salaries alone, excluding employer pension contributions in the civil service of 28.97%.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Now it is near total darkness in here.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Overall totals are trending a little lower, but there is still a fair amount of uncertainty in the exact storm track, so we have a 20% chance for double or half these amounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the latest campaign finance reports show that Nixon outraised Moody in the third quarter, with the candidates reporting fundraising totals of $7.6 million and $5.8 million, respectively.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
In total, including options and restricted stock, his ownership in SpaceX totals 6.4 billion shares, valued currently at $960 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The current programme totals around $7 billion over three years, with the Fund reaching an agreement this month to release a $1.2 billion tranche.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Then each pack counted off and when the totals were in, Miyax’s wolves yipped among themselves as if discussing the tundra news—a pack of twelve wolves to the north.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled about 1.7 million in the week through Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Revenues totaled $14.6 billion, nearly double the $7.8 billion second quarter figure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Across the company, cash additions to property and equipment totaled $35.8 billion, compared with $17.1 billion a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
These funds provide retirement benefits to more than 750,000 people, and their assets under management totaled $330 billion at the end of August.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Involuntarily, my mind totaled her purchases to $4.53.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
The document release totalled more than 1,500 pages.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Following the crash, Thomas said it was when he was able to stand up he saw both cars had been "totalled," although neither driver was seriously harmed.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
The number of teachers employed in them during the year totalled 665.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
Lula pulled around 4.4 million more votes than his rival, totaling over 64.2 million on his seventh go at the presidency -- the highest proportion ever counted in Brazil.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
My other assets, totaling $6 million, are divided equally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Paxton took out mortgages totaling $1.9 million for them, according to legal documents filed with the local county.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The move broke a seven-day inflow streak totaling over $850 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Then he went back to totaling an order for a gaunt housewife.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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After bumper second-quarter profits both SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics announced buybacks totalling $40 billion that were completed earlier than expected in mid-October.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
United confirmed it made three further drawdowns from its revolving credit limit, on 29 and 31 July and 28 August, totalling £120m.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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 figures of this account were very large, totalling into six figures.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum
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