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In total, 116 S&P 500 companies had put out earnings-per-share outlooks for the third quarter, according to the report.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
The U.S. economy added 29,000 jobs in September, which was far fewer than economists expected and well below the prior month’s total.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Just over a quarter of their total transfer outlay was paid to clubs in the English top flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Its parent company is Bio Pappel, and McKinley has a total of 17 industrial plants, recycling centers, distribution centers and corporate headquarters in the U.S., according to its website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
He traveled all the way around the Earth—a total of twenty-four thousand miles.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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 totals are not definitive and could yet rise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
With high pressure giving way to low pressure for the rest of this week, rain is expected to become much more widespread over the next few days, although rainfall totals will be very uneven.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled 1.7 million in the week through Sept. 19, falling by 11,000 from the downwardly revised total a week earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Assets under management for the four-year-old ETF totaled $1.9 billion as of Sept. 21, more than tripling from $640 million when MarketWatch spoke to Campbell in February.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Average monthly spending on the program totaled $12 billion from April to September 2020, a 61% jump from a year earlier, according to the Agriculture Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The job funded her first solo apartment in MacArthur Park, but an insurance payout from a totaled car ultimately gave her the financial runway to leave sales behind and focus solely on music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
If they ate only once or twice a day at $3.33 per meal, that totaled $1,640 a month, Jesse estimated.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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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
Hull, who hit 13 of 14 fairways last Friday, totalled 63 putts in the first two rounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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
In the six years 1901-6 the exports of frozen meat from Australia totalled 353,514,135 lb. of beef and 371,692,090 lb. of mutton.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
Anthropic had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $20.28 billion at the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Through acquisitions of other tech firms, the company has assembled a portfolio of 17 owned properties totaling more than 2.2 million square feet, according to CoStar data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Starting Monday, Carney hosts an investment summit that officials have likened to a matchmaking exercise, pairing companies pitching projects with some of the world’s top asset managers responsible for assets totaling over $100 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
My mind did the totaling and, counting the baby, there were six of them!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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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
It shows there have been 66 confiscation orders between January 2021 and March 2026, totalling £7.3m.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In December, the IDAE, Spain's Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy, awarded €827m in EU funds to 133 energy storage projects totalling 2,400MW.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The first was the son of Edward I., but the title was never made hereditary, and there have been periods, totalling altogether 288 years, in which it lay dormant.
From The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
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