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totality

[toh-tal-i-tee] / toʊˈtæl ɪ ti /


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The San Diego district attorney’s office said it took the totality of evidence into consideration when reaching a plea deal with Rylaarsdam, as well as input from the victim’s family.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

While the UK will only see a partial eclipse, observers in Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain and parts of the Arctic Ocean will experience totality.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

"It is sometimes a challenge to be able to prevent any kind of incident in totality," Dhaliwal added.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

The transformer does all of that work repeatedly against a vast “context,” or the totality of the information a model can handle at one time in working memory.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 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 Minto, William




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