totality
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In Spain, totality occurred while the setting Sun was already close to the horizon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A tavern’s open door to my right revealed a line of patrons perched atop barstools, their backs to the open door, watching a TV showing the eclipse nearing totality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The totality zone in Spain covers a year-round population of 16 million people, where the rare phenomenon is delivering an unexpected economic windfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It is going to be a fantastic eclipse in Spain, we are right on the path of totality," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was his recommendation that Richard serve the totality of that time in the juvenile system.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Essentially, we need to understand that mass immunity is not a matter of totalities; rather, it is a continuum that stretches from "can't ever be infected" to "won't be hospitalized or will die if infected."
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2020
The longest totalities provide about six minutes of being in the complete shadow of the moon.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2017
The paranoid outlook can be internally logical, never trivializing, and capable of explaining any or all observed phenomena as aspects of larger, symmetrical totalities.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
A collective name may be used as a general name when it is extended on the ground of what is common to all such totalities as it designates.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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