totality

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Think ahead: If you miss 2026’s eclipse, on August 2, 2027, another eclipse will sweep across North Africa and is said to be the century’s best, with the longest-lasting totality over land until 2114.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“On the case side of things, I wanted something that encompassed the totality of the show,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Connor: In assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s use of force, one must consider the totality of circumstances.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

Witness accounts, background information about Ross and Good and details about what else was going on that morning will help them examine what Piehota called the "totality" of the circumstances.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus that ‘The world is the totality of facts, not of things.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton